Re: Won't happen in my lifetime
"Oh. Wait. Both T-Mobile and AT&T have problems with VPNs, including Apple's Private Relay and Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1."
That's weird. Because I use T-Mobile, and I have no trouble connecting to VPNs. I use OpenVPN and connect to servers I personally set up and obtained the necessary configurations. The only times I have trouble getting through are (a) network trouble, which is outside the scope of OpenVPN, and (b) forgetting to turn off Blokada first (since it has to use the VPN interface to work).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
