I mean, sometimes you need a CDN because your hosting costs would be untenable otherwise, and CloudFlare’s the only one that’s free / a flat $20 for as much tra

I mean, sometimes you need a CDN because your hosting costs would be untenable otherwise, and CloudFlare’s the only one that’s free / a flat $20 for as much traffic as people can throw at it. So losing CloudFlare can mean that your only other option is to pay egress-bandwidth bills / other CDN service bills you can’t pay; and so you just don’t bother to put your site back up at that point.