It's very difficult for me to contemplate how anybody could run a VPN, however reputable, that isn't compromised by one intelligence agency at least. Their incentive structures and their costs to participate in this space just make it a no-brainer.

If you're starting a brand new VPN company with ironclad ideals about privacy - are you going to be able to compete with state-run enterprises that can subsidize their own competing "businesses", on top of whatever coercive authority they possess to intervene in local small businesses?

It would shifts part of the data route info from your provider toward that particular relay.

But I wouldn't recommend it of course.

Of course it would hence you should stick with mullvad, a reputable VPN. Tor is not made for single relay paths, you're just wasting it's potential.