What are more people looking for when they’re comparing the location count of VPNs? Do people care about where their IP address appears to be, or do they care about their physical proximity to the server?
For some it may be both, but my guess is that most people care about the first thing more. If that’s the case then Proton’s solution here still gives an accurate country count, because that is indeed the number of countries you can appear to be located within based on your IP.