I agree. The fact ProtonMail exists in a world that's pretty hostile to individual privacy is hardly their fault, I think they were pretty good at explaining what their limits are compared to a lot of companies out there. It'd be churlish to leave ProtonMail for say, Gmail or another mainstream offering that makes far less of an effort to be private and transparent in my opinion.

I feel there's a lot of people who are absolutists about privacy without realising the legal and technical realities of that absolutism. I don't agree for one minute with governments and corporations compromising people's privacy, but whatever we like to tell ourselves about liberal democracy all authority amounts to "might makes right" in the end, and ProtonMail doesn't have the mightiest club to swing around in this situation.