Argument is based on the assumption that "probably only one percent of users correctly use a kill switch", and in general shows a low level of understanding of threat models and the swiss cheese security model. Author assumes to know the intentions of VPN users and asserts users are dumb, also throwing unnecessary barbs at "wannabe hackers". Unprofessional article, bad advice, no differentiation between nonlogging services and services like nordvpn that bundle google analytics and tracking into their application.

My take? Do a threat assessment, build a threat model, know your adversary be it your own ISP selling your data or protection against hostile state entities when traveling overseas. There are many valid uses for the various types of commercial VPN and instead of an objective look at these services the author walks in with an assumption that they are all the same and never provide value to their customers, then bends over backwards to attempt to make weak arguments against a vast category of service.