VPNs that will not run in User login

I stopped using one of the most highly rated and popular VPNs when the program changed and refused to run for any User. It would only run when an Admin was logged in. The program/service is Private Internet Access (PIA).

I have always read that it is a good security practice to run my machines as a Standard User except when Admin logon is necessary. (This would be a logon with membership in Admins group.P This seems pretty rare. I can install most programs and do updates simply by entering an Admin account credential in a popup User Access Control dialog box. None of this concerns the hidden Administrator account.

Even PIA has a "good security practices" guide that recommends running mostly in User mode. The author of the guide obviously didn't talk to the PIA programmers or marketing people.

I have never seen a review site for VPNs that mentions this issue. Maybe it's because most of them profit by links to the VPN publishers. The "reviews" are usually no more that a tabulation of the claims made by the VPN companies. For example, a VPN may be rated more highly if it has more servers. Or maybe it's only PIA that has this problem, and it isn't obvious unless you go deep in its documentation.

Am I out of date on this point, perhaps? Does everyone simply run their machines, and machines they set up for others, always with Admin logins? That is: Don't worry, be happy.

The terms may be confusing, there's a User with administrative rights [nearly full rights], a Standard User [more restrictive in what they can do] and the hidden by default Administrator. It never recommended to routinely run that hidden Administrator. The hidden Administrator has full rights that can do the most.

Can you run it as Administrator from a Standard user account?