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I haven't spent much time with Next.js, but luckily React will soon natively support[0] SSR. Wonder if Next.js will still be around once React Server Components are fully released.

[0]https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react...

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In short, the answer is likely yes. React's server component stuff is about providing primitives to make it possible to address some of the downsides of the current approach to building apps/sites that follow the SSR-with-SPA-handover (hybrid rendering) model. There'll still be a need for more holistic frameworks that sit in front of React. SSR itself has been possible with React since 2014 (allowing for a few memory leaks), Next.js just eliminates a lot of the grunt work.

The React team is working with the Next.js team (amongst others) to make sure there's alignment.

Will they also be supporting static site generation?

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