Is this a bad thing?

I guess you are behind a CGNAT that’s why you want to connect to your VPN using the protonvpn connection instead of your normal ISP?

Do you match the service with the characters personality?

I once had a defective ssd in my proxmox raid which pulled down the performance. Have you checked the individual ssd if their rw speed is up to spec?

Memmy App for iOS works quite well. Multiple updates per day over testflight.