> Also it’s not like it’s impossible to encrypt things when you store them?

Apart from Signal, do you know of an actual US service where things are E2E encrypted, including metadata, that also allows several people working on the same thing at the same time?

> not having the US have access to EU data

It is a great deal about not having US access EU data.

It is also about the US not having the power to cut the EU from essential services.

> This article is more political than logical or technical

Of course this is 100% a political matter (rather than technical). This is not a bad thing. Technical stuff doesn't live in a politic-free vacuum.

> it’s unfortunate that government control / intervention in the free market to this degree can be spun into something positive.

And this stance too.