There are other benefits to being on a VPN. It is a crapload harder (As in would give NSA fits) to get hacked on a VPN connection especially if you connect to public WIFI. It is relatively easy to hack people connected to public WIFI. $100 rig in a backpack (Pi, USB Powerpack, WIFI adapter, Kali Linux and your phone connected bluetooth to the Pi via SSH) and anyone at the Starbucks doing any transaction unless they are on a VPN can be owned and the hacker just looks like they are messing with their phone like 90% of the people in there.
Boom... they have your CC, your security code, your address, etc.
The only “tech” I use is an IPad and the only thing I do with it is freep. The most anyone is going to get from snooping on me are my freeps.
Back in the old alt net days I used to point out to the guys on the encryption net that the “secure” encryption that was 256 bit “unbreakable” was very likely written by the NSA and had a loop that forwarded every encrypted banana bread recipe straight to the NSA. I wouldn’t doubt they have done the same thing with “VPNs”. IOW, there is in MHO a very good chance all you are doing by using tricks to avoid them is making it easier for them to scrutinize the people they really want to keep an eye on. Nothing in this world is what it seems to be anymore.