On the admin side Apple tends to group those functions together though. Trusting certificates isn’t a “General” task for most people. It’s typically for the purposes they’ve delegated to the VPN & Device Management section.

I’m not saying that necessarily makes -any more- sense. Given that the VPN settings are much more widely used and used to be available only through the top line settings, and is still also available at the top of the first list of settings.