Ban VPNs, an industry of SOCKS5 proxies will boom. Ban those, put the SOCKS5 proxy behind an SSH port-forward, and so on and so forth. Suddenly calling a Kubernetes API puts you in a secret service list somewhere.
You seem to think they're banning OpenVPN protocol and if you just use a different protocol you can work around it. They're not, they're banning privacy.
We’ll just invent internet over WebRTC hops… wait..
Isn't that liblyrebird/Snowflake that Orbot/Whonix/TBB use as an anticensorship gateway?