Unless you're using another VPN/proxy/Tor/... to connect to the VPN, the IP where you're connecting from (respectively the full 4-tuple including source/destination port) likely does identify your address.
Of course. It doesn't help what I'm getting pretty much the same IPs from my provider.
Double (triple|quad) hop, tied to different entities is necessary if you want at least plausible deniability. Thankfully I don't do things what may be of the interest of someone who can raid Mullvad offices.
But I recently discovered a VPS provider who only needs an email address to confirm an order, so it can be used as a bootstrap for a something pretty anonymous. Still needs an email, but as I said in some other comment recently, you can do that (if you are okay with leaving some traces) with a Google device with WiFi only capability.
