I appreciate this reply, and hope the initial engineer gets no flak for his personal opinions attempting to defend your company. It's nice to see a tech company with employees defending it and leadership making such public statements as this.
An unusual and excellent CEO stance. Now I like Cloudflare even more.
No JS required, just feed all web requests directly through them where they can see all first party cookies, encrypted contents, etc.
Not quite at the level of a public figure (Pres. Biden can't go around making flippant comments) but more than being just a private citizen or "I just work here". No amount of disclaimer can remove that, and for better or worse it's part and parcel with the job.