Not off domain registration, clearly. It's a loss-leader and gets you in their product. Significantly cheaper than any of the "low cost" registrars I've seen for `.net` and I already used them for DNS anyway.

I find things like this to be a shady business practice. Not antitrust level shady, but still. For customers it's a win, but it kills competition long-term, turning the mid-term wins into a long-term loss.

I wouldn't want my domain to be a marketing expenditure for a tech giant. Then you get a Google Domains style shitshow.

Is Cloudflare known for constantly starting up and shutting down products left, right, and centre though?

Their prices are going to increase too (by $0.62 if my math is right).

how hard is it to transfer?

i was part of the godaddy > namecheap exodus, and it was such a pain in the ass that i never wanted to touch it again.