For average use not really, assuming the VPN is reliable and trustworthy, and if by average you mean just regular day to day browsing.
When you start getting into the territory of doing stuff that would actually get investigated, it has some benefits like having a little bit of protection from possibly backdoored servers, MITM, etc.
For regular privacy in day to day, it is an improvement but I wouldn’t consider it worth the latency gain unless absolutely needed.