this is useful information, remembering this for when i'm going back.
express used to switch between acceptable and unusable (and expensive), asdrill was recommended to me by obnoxious people so i never tried it (also expensive), and nord was completely unusable
Astrill does work but has fairly frequent downtimes and is overall mid (in China at least)
Lets VPN was up until recently very reliable but there's reports of users getting banned by AI that deemed the users were committing crimes. Does have Chinese users because they're one of the few that bothered to have Chinese language support