Ask HN: Is Cloudflare DNS Broken?

Over the last few months I've found that it takes a lot longer to add new DNS records which are managed by Cloudflare DNS. I get that they are probably managing billions of records and writing these zone files in a scalable way isn't a simple problem; I expect there might be a minute delay, but it feels like I'm often waiting five to ten minutes which makes using certbot to get certificates a challenge.

Today I'm adding records and double check the name and they don't show up in Google tools like https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#TXT at all.

Does anyone know if something is happening there?

I check their self-reported status and nothing is reported:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/