You can add AWS, Azure, and GCP to this list. Most people don’t want to lay out the money for a static IP, and why should they?
Disclaimer I work on App Engine.
Search in that same document for "naked domain".
> I'd like to map my app to a naked domain (such as http://example.com).
vs.
> App Engine does not currently provide a way to map static IP addresses to an application
the latter is that you own an IP and want to map it against your appengine.
the former is example.com -> appengine site.
(not related to google)