You make it sound like it’s always the case but ISPs in some countries are less centralized/ not on the stock market and rather oldschool so I bet they don’t do anything with your data (yet). Think of utility companies.
True but it seems to me that it’s an advantage to have your IP logged in this more decentralized way. most resolvers also cache the answers so it would be only logged the first time you visit a website.
So your answer to „you can’t generalize vpn good, isp bad because not everyone is living in the UK and US“ is „but what if everyone does?!“ ok