If they were shutting down their service every time police requests logs then their servers wouldn't have time to even boot properly. In their "clarification" they claim they received 700 orders in 2020. It is ~2 orders/day.
That means Protonmail needs to stop training users to "trust us". It's a losing strategy.
Protonmail must educate users to treat it as an adversary. And to still provide a product worth using.
Train users to use Tor. Promote other tools for dissenters.
Sabotaging and seek political asylum to Non-EU countries is the best action they could take in order to keep their face, and resist the dictator.