

As far as I know the arr suite tools do not download things. They scour publicly available pages for torrent links and meta data, so they don’t really need to be behind a VPN. The download client it all ends in should definitely be behind a VPN though
You could’ve also talked to them about it. Ghosting is such an asshole move, making them question whether it was their fault, when in reality you just reached the conclusion that you want to spend your free time differently