Yeah, thats FUD. Cloudflare hasnt called anybody demanding huge sums of cash and holding your domains hostage. As a registrar they're fine, dont play scammy scum upsell games (because they have a real business model that isnt just registration skim).
Isn't that exactly what https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web... purports happened?