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Not exactly. Maybe you benefit from an additional virus scan (if Proton does this). What you certainly benefit from is the "only load external resources when told to" feature. This prevents tracking since loading the external resource == the mail was opened.
What exactly do you want to achieve in terms of security?
I'm beginning to think many people here just want to throw money at a vague concept of "security" without having a crumb of a threat model in mind.
IMO people mainly just want big tech to quit snooping on everything they do.
On the other hand, it is a lot of hoops and a large learning curve for those to whom have no idea where to start other than having big tech stop snooping.
Yep, you hit nail on the head. This is currently me.