I get where you are coming from but I think there's a significant headwind to us doing something weirdly proprietary. If we were to create some two-tier Internet then our clients (who have web/API servers) would start having part of their audience/consumers get poorer performance or security or something. So we'd be sticking a finger in the eye of the people who pay us.
Nothing wrong with some cynicism. And I totally understand the concern, but one thing people always miss with Cloudflare is... follow the money. We get paid by people with web servers and API servers. We have to do things that keep them happy.
> one thing people always miss with Cloudflare is... follow the money
I think that applies almost anywhere. One could say "don't trust Google or Facebook with personal data" merely based on the fact that almost all of their money comes from advertising.
