I feel like that's crazy. There should be no traffic entering or leaving your machine that's not end-to-end encrypted already. Trusting some fly-by-night VPN provider because they buy a lot of YouTube ads is no substitute for proper end-to-end session level encryption.
Simply seeing what servers you connect to can reveal a lot about you. Where you work, what social media accounts you have, what apps you have installed, what you are interested in reading etc. HTTPS doesnt help you with that.
Which is precisely the use case I use a VPN for.
I'd rather trust an at least somewhat trustworthy VPN provider with my data than a random coffee shop and clients who happen to be on the same network at the time.