It could be somewhat important/interesting to change your public endpoint with the internet to pass country-based filters. Besides that, as others pointed out,

It could be somewhat important/interesting to change your public endpoint with the internet to pass country-based filters. Besides that, as others pointed out, it's a safe way to get out of a compromised network. And with a DNS blocker on the VPN endpoint, you are also able to block ads/tracking scripts (think of PiHole).