As a bit of a meta point it’s a bit astonishing how good Cloudflare is at PR and community management. The sentiment I’ve seen here in the past is overwhelmingly pro-Cloudflare. Every now and then they’ll publish a hit piece on AWS here and there’ll be an AWS hate thread, but no one seems to question Cloudflare’s motives for promoting bad press about their competitor directly to their target market.

Then again in most things, the underdog trying to upstage the incumbent is always a popular narrative. You’re right that talking about it likely isn’t going to change any sentiment.