> you are by definition moving _away_ from single point-of-failure

Depends on the frame of reference of “single point-of-failure”.

In the context of technical SPOFs, sure. It’s a distributed system across multiple geographies and failure domains to mitigate disaster in the event any one of those failure domains, well, fails.

It doesn’t fix that technology is operated by humans who form part of the sociotechnical system and build their own feedback loops (whose failures may not be, in fact are likely not going to be, independent events).

SPOFs also need to contemplate the resilience and independence of the operators of the system from the managing organisation. There is one company that bears accountability for operating CF infra. The pressures, headwinds, policies and culture of that organisation can still influence a failure in their supposedly fully distributed and immune system.

For most people hosting behind Cloudflare probably makes sense. But you need to understand what you’re giving up in doing so, or what you’re sacrificing in that process. For others, this will lead to a decision _not_ to use them and that’s also okay.