> The behavior seems likely to mislead a lot of people even if it doesn't confuse you.

You need to go way out of your way to toggle a switch to enable this feature.

The toggle says very prominently "Cloudflare allows HTTPS connections between your visitor and Cloudflare, but all connections between Cloudflare and your origin are made through HTTP."

You proceed to enable this feature.

Does it confuse you that Cloudflare's requests to your origin servers are HTTP?