[oddevan]

It's impossible to be ideologically pure with every single decision. We live in a messy world.

In this case, I think he could be forgiven for (a) wanting to use his existing skillset to get his site online quickly and reliably and/or (b) actually believing that Cloudflare—based on previous actions—would robustly defend his site.

[account42]

You can get your site online just as quick without Buttflare. If anything, adding a reverse proxy is additional work you would otherwise not have to do.