ProtonMail has always been clear: they abide by Swiss law and don't track IP addresses until forced to. Now people are upset at ProtonMail because it works as claimed, not how people assumed because they weren't paying attention.
It's not Proton Mail's "marketing" that's to blame. They've been hitting you over the head that IT'S BASED IN SWITZERLAND since like forever. 
On the marketing page that explains "end-to-end encryption" and "zero access to user data", they explain they still abide by Swiss law.
They recommend using Tor to hide the IP address, the one thing they can see about your connections, the hole in their offering:
Their transparency report clearly says that while they don't monitor IP addresses by default, they may be forced by Swiss law to enable IP address monitoring.
For some reason, privacy-activists fail to read transparency reports.
For some reason, privacy-activists fail to read transparency reports.
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