it's not cloudflare deciding, it's the website owners/operators. As someone who has made that decision: the trade is clear. Turnstile can reduce scaling requirements by more than half, greatly reducing our costs. Automated traffic can be very spiky: scrapers, scalpers, 0-day pen testers. We probably block 10,000 automated requests for every affected Firefox user... because it's not all Firefox users.
It's not that website operators are trying to punish you, it's that we can't survive without discriminating against automations, and your signal is getting mistaken.
It's not that website operators are trying to punish you, it's that we can't survive without discriminating against automations, and your signal is getting mistaken.