> ” what they actually want is preemptive removal without meaningful human review or anything else that could take 10 minutes.”

Yet this would actually be a better solution for everyone (except the pirates).

10 minutes seems like a reasonable response time that would allow a chance for human review. No football fan wants to have their viewing interrupted because they used a dodgy pirate site to watch it. Currently, pirates can simply use a VPN to get around the IP-level block while the huge collateral damage affects legitimate Cloudflare users.