Recently I was looking for solution to have multiple VPN running at the same time, and without work profile I am limited to one. I want to run two (or more) and be able to tell which app uses no VPN, which routes through vpn1, which routes through vpn1, etc. so far it looks like I need multiple profiles, and that requires root, which Google actively discourages.

Maybe someone knows better alternatives?

I think "WG Tunnel" should be able to do that. You can add multiples profiles and link apps to it.