Why are there criteria changes being made without a discussion thread and approval first?

Ah, I see what you mean. In this IVPN case I didn’t think there was much room for discussion, because not requiring a kill switch on iOS was the only possible outcome, otherwise we could never recommend a VPN?

The other proposed changes coming from the Remove ProtonVPN thread aren’t criteria change PRs, and I’m not sure if we are proposing another criteria change in that thread anyways yet. I think if we are going to change criteria based on a ProtonVPN discussion then yes indeed we will need to start a new discussion about it, but we aren’t at this point.

Instead I think the possibility of removing Proton VPN or adding a warning to it are both still on the table, which would make that removal thread still valid.