I'm not an expert, but if the TLS handshake occurs closer (as in latency) to the client and the actual request/response payload is small (or if the CDN's networ

I'm not an expert, but if the TLS handshake occurs closer (as in latency) to the client and the actual request/response payload is small (or if the CDN's network is better), then it seems like terminating in a CDN could certainly be better than not.