Well yeah, I figured that they wanted to spend the money on something for their business to make /more/ profit. But what?
Edit: (at least) part of the answer is listed by jasoncartwright above.
I'm just speculating but cloud hosting might be their next big leap if they go that route? They've already got a domain registrar and other interesting services.
I doubt that. But we do have a very large network that keeps expanding and expanding...
Maybe not yet, but I could see you guys going that route. Digital Ocean used to only be VPS' now they've got plenty of other offerings. You're still in a good business regardless.
They could add features and compete in new markets. Smaller ones like bot/scraper blocking, or bigger ones like cloud compute.
They already offer bot blocking and a scrape shield, and they’re getting into Compute on the Edge with Cloudflare Workers and Coudlflare KV. Upgrading all their points across the world might open beefier compute options.