Custom content type, multiple entries grouped by day, no individual permalink?

One option appears to be a leaf bundle, as seen here:

but this would have me manually creating a duplicate _index.md for each and every day, and that’s not something I’d relish (as activities go back nearly 30 years). There’s a mention of Data sources there too, and I think I might be willing to do some sort of activity-by-day “data” $Date shortcode, but I don’t know how I’d rig it up to generate per-day lists at /activities/YYYY/MM/DD/.