The OP has posted a follow-up, but it’s also from 2016: https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/06/07/cloudflare-making-inter...

Two things that have changed since then are 1) Cloudflare’s Privacy Pass browser extension and 2) their significant network expansion, both of which would be likely to affect the experience described.

One thing that has not changed, however, is how many (typically unsophisticated) web site operators actively search their logs for signs of suspicious / bot activity and then institute manual blocks in the hope of catching all of them. This is often done with very blunt instruments, such as whole-country blocks.

In contrast, people who are confident about their infrastructure can deal with the background noise of the Internet appropriately—by doing nothing.