A good option, if you want that kind of story, is to give a reason for your character suddenly becoming weak again. Maybe they have a traumatic brain injury and have to relearn things. Or maybe they somehow get switched into a new body and nothing is quite the same. In TTRPGs the possibilities are almost endless!
Usual use case is just privacy or sometimes getting around region-locked content. I personally have very sadly switched away from Mullvad as well due to the lack of port-forwarding. My ISP does not allow it and I use it to play certain games with friends (I do not want to pay to host a server to do something once a week).
Turns out I did not try enough instances! Piped.lunar.icu threw a certificate date error and piped.yt threw a js error (or semething). Piped.video works fine!
It isn't even close. I'm glad this makes the decision so easy!