We're solving the wrong thing here. We should be going directly to the source: The mis-behaving (for whatever reason) IP and the ISP that owns it. We should be

We're solving the wrong thing here. We should be going directly to the source: The mis-behaving (for whatever reason) IP and the ISP that owns it. We should be fostering an ecosystem that solves that problem, not one that results in a CloudFlare popping up. Which proverbially just throws spaghetti (money, technical-expertise and infrastructure) at the problem, and then using that accumulated power to shape (or manipulate) the web to its liking, and to kick-off anyone it doesn't like off it, of course.