What a bullshit post. The reality is that it depends on your circumstances. Most people in the United States do not need a VPN. Saying it's required is horseshit.
out of curiousity, i played with these steps and noticed that you can save the music sheets for offline viewing using the firefox 'singlefile' extention:
You can find the last appimage/flatpaks of yuzu on archive.org, they still work fine