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Why not just use proton? Its Swiss based. Not sure about purism but I think its US so avoid it like a plague.
A few of the many reasons are the fact that their e2ee is snakeoil (see my comment here about why - but tldr it requires completely trusting them and if you completely trust them you wouldn't need e2ee, the point of e2ee is to avoid needing to trust the service provider), their server-side code is closed-source, they're a freemium service which can and does arbitrarily decide to start charging for previously-free features, they've suspended a number of users who they should not have, and their CEO is a trump fanboy.
You know who else was Swiss based? ๐
Yes let's make sure everyone's on the exact same provider. What could possibly go wrong. "Just use X" bandwagonning is shortsighted and lazy.