A side observation the poses a question could using Cloudflare also help with google indexing?
I noticed some improvements yesterday, positive indexing and impression trend but it could just be coincidental. 
Noticed a big surge toward end of October. These ones must be getting past CF Block Ai Bots mitigation feature.
CF now suggesting to use Ai Labyrinth:
AI Labyrinth modifies your web pages by adding nofollow links that contain AI-generated content to disrupt bots ignoring crawling standards. The nofollow links added do not alter the contents of your web pages and are only visible to bots.
Fight AI with AI? 
AI Arms race much?
It is an arms race and, as with spammers, I suspect it always will be.
What is the option sans Cloudflare (fallout bunker) as an in the middle-man to mitigate this, or is it the only option?
It seems it’s all or nothing, and nothing = AI traffic that behaves like DDOS! 