Hopping back in here. You are right. No-cache policy is not worth it for what we are trying to achieve.
Is there any way to have the JS files that are not being optimized by Autoptimize to have them optimized (essentially, we would want these optimized and fingerprinted with the autoptimize_… filename)?
Such as these files in our dist/ paths: https://ibb.co/2FhDVTW
Once again, thank you so much for all of the guidance and help thus far.