Being able to use airport wifi (or other public wifi) is actually a pretty big deal IMHO.

I really value not having to constantly leave my phone on, blasting my location to anyone who cares to ask.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hu...

(I self host my VPN, so I'm fairly confident the provider isn't going to jeopardize their entire business model to add extra analytics. Sites I visit get the IP of the VPN, and conversely my ISP sees my traffic going to a random server in Denver. It's win-win.)