In what kind of world is a missing feature or a broken feautre due to incomplete migration to a new ecosystem, a reason to boycott that new ecosystem?? Those are simply not valid arguments to me.
They are obviously valid arguments to say, hey, this work is not completed, is not mature enough etc. So, therefore, you stay with previous ecosystem. But to boycott it because of that? That does not make sense to me at all.
Port forwarding does matter to increase ypur availability. It is not a requirement to be able to seed and you can also seed at pretty decent rates without port forwarding, though. I am doint it with mullvad without PF and it’s fine.
In my opinion, there are no other VPNs with a similar quality of mullvad that support PF at the price of mullvad.
We really need to push for the use of i2p for torrenting. Given that the the offer of VPNs with port forwarding that are decent is little and decreasing every year.