"Technically, WARP is a VPN.... We built WARP because we’ve had those conversations with our loved ones too and they’ve not gone well. So we knew that we had to start with turning the weaknesses of other VPN solutions into strengths. Under the covers, WARP acts as a VPN. But now in the 1.1.1.1 App, if users decide to enable WARP, instead of just DNS queries being secured and optimized, all Internet traffic is secured and optimized. In other words, WARP is the VPN for people who don't know what V.P.N. stands for."
I don't think this holds much weight given the regular users of this product are likely referred to https://1.1.1.1 and are unlikely to read through all of this 3000 word blog post with tech jargon. However, indeed, many people might've heard about it from other blog posts saying it's a VPN or word-of-mouth from more technical users also calling it a VPN - but it's obvious Cloudflare made a concerted effort not to use that term.
I think it holds weight when I’m staring at a Cloudflare blog URL that explicitly says “Warp better VPN.” I don’t doubt that this has been scrubbed from current documentation, but this is fair evidence for the above comment’s claim that CF has advertised it as a VPN.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but it was especially odd in this context to claim that this misconception was entirely driven from outside of Cloudflare when the URL is sitting right there.
"Technically, WARP is a VPN.... We built WARP because we’ve had those conversations with our loved ones too and they’ve not gone well. So we knew that we had to start with turning the weaknesses of other VPN solutions into strengths. Under the covers, WARP acts as a VPN. But now in the 1.1.1.1 App, if users decide to enable WARP, instead of just DNS queries being secured and optimized, all Internet traffic is secured and optimized. In other words, WARP is the VPN for people who don't know what V.P.N. stands for."