If I understand correctly, then Cloudflare's paradigm is: We have a bunch of polished, simple standard services and if you want to do something slightly differe

If I understand correctly, then Cloudflare's paradigm is: We have a bunch of polished, simple standard services and if you want to do something slightly different and/or do something on the network you can use Workers. I think it's pretty smart and empowering as it strikes a nice balance between great, simple DX and high flexibility.