hi @Steve Goldberg
What is the definition of "key details"? To me, all frontend html is key details. IE: if we don't render the footer, we are losing all the internal linking we put there.
IE2: if we utilize a cms area below items on PLP pages for seo purposes but we the rendering stops at a certain point, we lose all the value of that cms area.
Etc.
So if I am interpreting yourself correctly, no, rendering "some" content is not better than rendering nothing. Rendering nothing at least gives google a signal that he should try use JS to render the page (unreliable, undesirable) - while if we serve content Google will assume that IS the content of the page.
Google is always trying to optimize its resources, the only strategy that would benefit SuiteCommerce sites is to "pay the cost ourselves" instead of trying to also save resources ourselves. The more pre-render scenarios we cover, the better - if we think of SC/A's ability to growh and have higher visibility