Malicious traffic from Cloudflare is impacting cert renewals

Unless it is their malicious traffic, apparently.

Interpret this information as you will, however to be blunt - your decision and reasons to block Cloudflare seem to be incredibly misguided.

They are the source of attacks on my servers. No amount of cheerleading for them changes that. If I am "incredibly misguided" for protecting myself from them, we have very different definitions for what constitutes security best practices.