It became less of a choice for many after they sadly had to disable port forwarding.

Yeah, their reasoning is solid (easy to abuse) but it is still a very useful feature.

AFAIK, at the moment your choices are AirVPN and ProtonVPN. AirVPN has static port forwarding and Proton has UPNP port forwarding.

private internet access has port forwarding too

	▲	wing-_-nuts a minute ago \| parent [-]
		PIA is not to be trusted after their buyout, IMHO