Without weighing in on this particular example, Google does need to figure out how to inject some humane treatment into their cesspit of automated processes and fix their "scale without empathy" business model.
Original source doesn't require me to run Cloudflare's JS and archive.is does.
Archive.is isn't behind Cloudflare, but they cloned Cloudflare's captcha page CSS. You can tell because 1. It doesn't say Cloudflare anywhere and 2. It uses ReCaptcha (Cloudflare uses hCaptcha)
it does require you to run the js that shits a 50% banner on the screen after you start reading though, IMO far worse than any JS Cloudflare is sending