What i am saying is that a VPN provider has their terms of service you read and agree to.
In the same way all traffic is sent via the VPN and they can see your traffic. A government request renders your privacy voided. When you downloaded your VPN keys after payment, surprise, you didn’t use a second system such as tor to download them? Well they are now logged at the ISP, at the internet backbones that have traffic analysis (where CIA, FBI and others have logging) and multiple other locations. In your own VPN list most of the providers are in countries that must comply with the governments. VPN’s offer a false sense of security if not used properly.
It’s you that is spreading misinformation here. The API is public and anyone can read it here:
https://dev.gl-inet.com/
The cloud as you say only controls the router, no data is stored on the cloud except a token for control. All other functions are done on the router itself and data is not send back to GL. Everything is listed in the TOS.
Still don’t believe it? Ok do packet logging for a few days using the cloud and post the results here of what data is sent. You can do it with cloud enabled and disabled. Until then, don’t post useless comments and misinformation.