Gated communities are great. They lower the risk of crime significantly: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130320115113.h...

The same is true online. Apple's walled garden has kept hundreds of millions of people safe on their device. It's why iOS malware isn't a thing.

> Cloudflare stops much more than just blasts

Exactly. There's even more benefit to Cloudflare than just DDoS. Captcha's for stopping credential stuffing, for example.