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The alternative is to pretend that you can somehow divine a 'projected secure time.' Just, the gall to even write a sentence like that.
Your average restaurant owner is not likely going to pay an IT consultant extra money to operate a link shortener for them on the GoDaddy domain they bought in 2006.
And yes, this is the universal answer to "how much storage is enough" - use cases will grow to consume generally-available computing resources. Today it's 4k UHD + HDR; tomorrow it'll be 8k UHD + HDR, few years later it will be 120 FPS lightfield recording with separate high-resolution radar depth map channel. And as long as progress in display tech keeps pace, the benefits will be apparent, and adoption will be swift.
Nobody is suggesting shutting down Cloudflare or its services. It's just pointing out an attack technique that is being used.
This thread is absurd!