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All entities with known physical addresses have to respond to court orders, or men with guns will break into those addresses and kidnap whoever is supposed to have responded.

Correction:they do in fact have to respond to court orders, but they can't give any info as they simply do not have it.

Mullvad stores account (kyc) + payment information in line with Swedish tax laws for (I think) 7 years.

What Mullvad apparently don't have are data-plane logs. But then, surveillance laws mandate forceful & secret compliance in certain cases (Mullvad may be exempt but who knows: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018290)

Doesn't Mullvad accept cash without identifying information?

Yes, they do. They accept Monero too.

Proton isn’t giving up VPN users. It’s giving up mail users. There’s a huge legal difference.