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I can think of three reasons:

1. ad blockers are still so niche that it's not worth it to them

2. static IP addresses are dead-simple to block in a router or (probably? not a browser coder) in a browser plugin

3. static IP addresses aren't a real great cloud pattern, they're hard to scale out to meet demand

Re #3 - AWS Global Accelerator will give you 2 anycast static IPs that you can then route at will inside AWS.

Sure, and you can do BYOIP with cloud providers or CDNs. But then those IPs are trivial to block, and although I've never tried it, I suspect AWS GA isn't set up to constantly rotate IP addresses.

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