Curious, what is SOCKS5 used for that regular wireguard cannot do? I'm only familiar with the use case of telling Firefox to connect through a SOCKS5 proxy, which may be convenient as a form of split tunneling - only firefox traffic goes through the VPN and everything else through clearnet - but wireguard can be configured into a split tunnel form as well with a bit more work, and works for all software not just the ones aware of SOCKS proxies. Is it for use on a system where your permissions are too limited to turn on wireguard but not so limited that you cannot change Firefox proxy settings?
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I use AirVPN and a simple GlueTun container with socks proxy enabled then I can use any VPN provider.
Gluetun works great for other docker containers. For regular apps Vopono is another great solution, which makes it easy to for example run another instance of a browser in a separate namespace.
I have no idea about the SOCKS5 part but protonvpn supports port forwarding at least.
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Windscribe has split tunneling and port forwarding, but doesn't directly host SOCKS5. You can however run a SOCKS server locally and the WS app will route if set up. https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/why-was-socks5-discontinued/
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PIA is probably fine until there's legitimate evidence demonstrating they aren't, there are only baseless accusations at present based on who owns them
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Mullvad maybe?
https://mullvad.net/en/help/socks5-proxy
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