I've only talked in depth with one of them, but the reason is complexity: they want "a react framework" and every update to NextJS substantially raises the complexity bar, introducing a large number of features that they don't want or need. There's also been at least one incident of a NextJS bug which only affected non-Vercel deployments; and that incident came up in this discussion as evidence for their concern that NextJS doesn't have a future outside of Vercel (the company and the platform).