Yeah, PIA is… Alright? The parent company has a problematic past. Their old business model back in the late 2000’s was basically buying dying software, then pumping it full of adware to extract as much profit from the existing user base as possible. So lots of people jumped ship to other VPNs when PIA was sold to them a few years ago. But PIA itself has passed every audit that has been thrown at them, and they’re one of the few VPNs that still supports port forwarding.

Their performance is, as you said, mid. The speed definitely isn’t anywhere near gigabit, and the client tends to be kinda glitchy. But since port forwarding is such a hard requirement for so many people, they’ve managed to hold on to a pretty solid user base purely because of that.

It's also cheaper than mullvad and has good reviews. That's all I got.