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> 6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS.

https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/

Not allowing custom nameservers is the one thing stopping me from switching to Cloudflare.

Bit of a shame, as I had a bunch of domains with Google, which I suppose are now owned by Squarespace, which is a company I never saw myself using...

Can I ask when/why you would use custom name servers? I’m unfamiliar with them.

My reason is so that I can manage the DNS from a different place.

I use Digital Ocean to manage all my servers, and they have a DNS management interface where you can add domains, I prefer their UI and it has some nice integrations with their other services (e.g auto complete for VPS IPs).

Letting an email provider manage the domain.

Changing it is part of one of their paid things for some reason.

Yeah looks like it, says you'd need to upgrade to their Business plan to specify Custom Nameservers. But haven't needed to as it still lets me have non-proxied DNS A/CNAME/MX entries to elsewhere.