Not a digression at all! That’s a great case study. I think we need to think of digital sovereignty as a journey.. you don’t (and can’t realistically) do it all at once. That said, moments like this are opportunities to make some improvements, no matter how incremental. 
What are the CDN benefits of cloudflare really, for a website that is not expected to get alot of traffic? I have not noticed any issues personally with my self-hosted DNS on hetzner. But then I am not in the gulf region.
I’m souring a bit on WordPress personally given recent history and am looking at Ghost or even a static site using Jekyll.