I am pretty sure that 99% of sites would have less downtime due to DDoS attacks than from such outages. I have so many issues with Cloudflare that I don’t even know where to begin with, from over-caching causing issues up to decrypting all traffic, who the hell thinks this is really a good idea?

I hope you are right, but my fear is if it doesn’t alight with their interests they might just invent an excuse in their head

What’s actually his idea behind that?

I think one of the main issues is that most of his voters probably just don’t care about it at all