>"It doesn't cost a provider like Verizon anything to have such limits in place. And there's no good reason, other than sloppiness or laziness, that they wouldn't have such limits in place."[1]
The difference between Verizon and Cloudflare in this case is that Cloudflare generally _does_ fix their mistakes when they screw up (and generally don't make the same type again).. whereas Verizon has screwed up internet routing more times than I'd like to think about. No company is perfect, but I'd say this comparison is pretty apples to oranges.
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-...