Doesn’t sound like it failed at its purpose in that case

From afar, you get the impression that suits are in charge and if there isn’t already some “proof of popularity” of some sort, it won’t get greenlit

Fair enough, thanks for the response

I’m curious, since you’re already on Protonmail, why not use their VPN too?

in Europe you have to develop and sometimes apply for permits and licenses for each country

Honestly, EU Inc, announced at the WEF, is one of the few good things to come out of that mess. A single framework for running a business in all EU countries, meaning expansion across borders will be simplified enormously. Should allow for easier growth in the future.

There are certain sayings, phrases or slang that I may not be intimately familiar with.

This says nothing about your fluency. There are tonnes of English slang that Americans are unfamiliar with, and vice versa.
Hell, there’s a lot of Singaporean English that doesn’t exist in the minds of Brits and Americans, but Singaporeans are still fluent in English, it’s just different from what people consider “true” English.