That is easy to explain: because it is easier/cheaper for Cloudflare to build a solution that works for 99.99% of the people and simply throw that extra 0.01% u

That is easy to explain: because it is easier/cheaper for Cloudflare to build a solution that works for 99.99% of the people and simply throw that extra 0.01% under the bus. So the simplest explanation is "Cloudflare knows random users will be locked off the internet, and is happy with the trade-off".