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URLs haven't been associated with legitimate content for a long time now, since most of the things come from giant CDN companies like CloudFlare anyway. What you're seeing in URL bar has very little to do with where the JS code executed on your computer is coming from.

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Does it matter if it comes from a CDN rented by the NYT or a computer owned by DigitalOcean but rented by the NYT?

What matters is that the domain points to where the NYT considers is the correct source of their content.

With signed exchanges, the NYT is cryptographically opting into allowing Google (or other cache providers) to represent specific articles as being the NYT. It doesn't seem much different.

Yes, but users at least know the js code loaded was done so on behalf of the webpage the url points too

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