Depending on the DE you use, there’s a chance that theres something to manage VPN connections from the network manager, so you dont have to use the actual protonvpn app and still can use their servers
you can download protonvpn config files for that here: https://account.protonvpn.com/downloads
If robots start doing disgusting things their companies will probably just fix it. Not doing so will worsen their image I think.