Nah, fuck that. Censoring words by replacing characters with asterisks isn’t accessible to non-sighted users who use tools like screen readers. If people don’t want to see words on the internet they can block list them or choose what communities they engage with.
I noticed this, but it felt like a blip. I’m a paying customer and their status page was kept up to date, I still trust Proton to maintain better services than I can self host while having better values than something with insignificantly more uptime like Gmail which has had its own share of outages time to time.