The two issues the author brings up are broad issues I run into with Cloudflare protected sites all the time. The fundamental assumption that everything using the internet has a full JS engine and a human immediately ready to solve a reCAPTCHA is flawed, and thinking instances like this are a one-off is inherently wrong.
Torrent traffic, file transfers, VOIP and all the other non-HTTP type traffic that Cloudflare just breaks by default make up a good chunk of the traffic you see on the web. That Cloudflare pitches itself as a one and done solution with minimal configuration just nakes this worse, since website owners generally won't bother to set up custom rules for RSS feeds and the like. Additionally, if even 1% of the RSS feeds that were broken by cloudflare were emailed to you, your inbox would be flooded.