I wish online discourses didn't feel like engaging with possible shills for corporations as it did during 2000s, or maybe it didn't. Maybe, we became too aware and critical or maybe there is absolutely no honest discourse possible when commerce, political or even ideological agendas are involved. The best stance should one that presents varied solutions to a common problem.
Problem is, new adopters of digital presence do so by standardized convention set by market and market incentivise faster and efficient adoption and cloudflare is/has become that standard as what wordpress became decades ago, for bloggers. The boogeyman hackers pose uncertainity and cloudflare standard promised a solution against it, especially ddos. I usually reverse dig new companies and almost all of them are behind cloudflare. It is just a learned helplessness.