[cottsak]

VPN providers can totally scale. They will cease to be semi-dark-web services and turn first class. Services that test them will emerge verifying the security and encryption of tunnels.

Additionally there will be some who take an extreme view to this "zero knowledge" approach offering all forms of payment and workarounds to preventing down-stream ISPs/backhaul from tracking/identifying/classifying user traffic.

Maybe VPNs "are not the solution" but they still can do a lot of good in the mean time yet.