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They are a Mail provider. You can't blame a mail provider for providing a mail service.
You are basically asking for them to make it seem like you send mail, but in reality you send the message via some other protocol when it's send to Proton users. At that point you might as well not send mail at all.
As for their jurisdiction: The data protection laws changed after they were founded. They are also lobbying against them and have in fact threatened to stop investing in or even leave Switzerland.
Yes, I think that a transparent upgrade that improves privacy is an obviously good thing.
And seriously, they should have left. The law allows the Swiss government to force proton to alter the code run on their servers to satisfy requests from foreign governments. That is ridiculous.