It might help to read it once more then 🙂

Not entirely. CF can protect you from DDOS of up to a few millions of calls per minute. Your home router would melt with that traffic. They also act as a firewall if you enable the proxy dns feature. They do a sanity check before forwarding the call. Also a home router cannot do this. And there’s more.

I’m having such a difficult time with Newpipe. Lots of bugs since forever, no support for account, no way to sort channel videos. I’ll use it out of necessity rather than by preference.