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What advantage? Is there reason to believe that 1.1.1.1 treats CloudFlare's CDN specially and forwards EDNS info or similar?

EDNS absence does affect cheap DNS-based CDNs and has to effect on expensive AnyCast CDNs (one of them is CloudFlare CDN).

Amazon’s Cloudfront is anything but cheap, but they too are based on DNS based routing.