Yeah I get the same impression from the general chatter but no one seems to ever say what’s bad about NordVPN. I find their software pleasing to use, the meshnet functionality saves me some trouble, and the speeds seem to be very high and it’s reliable.
There’s other stuff their marketing material speaks to that people can choose to believe or not, but the above is why I subscribed.
If folks ever shared good, verifiable reasons to not use them I’d certainly look elsewhere.
Also - what’s not practical about Tor? Seems perfectly practical for my purposes.