I work for IPinfo.

No, the article does not make this conclusion at all! It was carefully written to highlight the nature of virtual locations of VPN exit nodes and does not make such conclusions.

The article is written by our founder, who is accessible to the VPN industry at large and is open to feedback and comments.

Actually, most VPN providers explicitly label the virtual locations as such, I think the famous ones at least do it (ex: Proton and NordVPN even explain them in their respective docs).

well to be fair it's not always important to have the server at the geoip since a lot of the time you can measure the real latency of a user behind an ip address anyway.

the only important bit is that it is made clear whenever a given country falls under some category that allows things such as traffic analysis and cataloging.

it's actually often times preferrable to lie about the server location for lower latency access geo-blocked content, particulary when accessing US geo-restricted content in europe.

if you want true privacy you have to use special tools that not only obfuscate the true origin, but also bounce your traffic around (which most of these vpns provide as an option)