It’s not arbitrary. It’s because Proton’s leaks are preventable. The others you mention require changes to the OS that VPN clients can’t control. Not sure why this is so hard to understand.
If you’d like to discuss adding warnings about limitations imposed by OSs, there is already an open thread for that here: Mention kill switch leaks caused by OS limitations
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