Has anything changed on the topic of DDoS protection? Maybe new, better options? Cheaper, easier to set up?
I remember a while back when Cloudflare was having issues, what felt like half of the internet was inaccessible for a period of time.

Regardless of conspiracy theories about who is behind this company, for the sake of the stability, reliability and decentralization of the internet, I believe that Cloudflare usage should be reduced if possible. It's just such a big single point of failure.