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 from Greece. I've heard numerous stories from the victims themselves, the ones that managed to survive. This is all true and just the tip of the iceberg.
It happens to the Evros river as well where people from Turkey come from.
There was a shipwreck in Pylos with hundreds drowned last year.
And there are many cases from people that are rescued that later are returned or tortured.
The ones that manage to get a staying permit as official refugees, are treated by most government offices with inequality and lies.
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.
OP you need to work on your emotions and stop the clickbaity titles.