That's been the most common criticism, but it already doesn't require CF, and they're explicitly working on extending plugin sandboxing to work on other platforms. Plus, of course, GPL.
I don't see this as any more vendor-locking than a .com account. It's still early days, so can't really judge it as a finished product, but the opening shot across the bow is a big one.
NextJS doesn't require Vercel, but it certainly does not work as well without them. Are wordpress users going to migrate? Who are they targeting with this?
Top-down project directives are a signal the CEO is out of touch and becoming Elon-esc.
As a user, I want a container registry and managed kubernetes. These block my adoption of Cloudflare as a primary provider. This story around emdash tells me to stop considering CF effective immediately. I was already of this mind seeing how little they help developers on Discord and in their own forums.
I don't see this as any more vendor-locking than a .com account. It's still early days, so can't really judge it as a finished product, but the opening shot across the bow is a big one.