> Do we also need to put all our letters into strongboxes before we send them?
If it were as cheap and efficient as TLS these days, yes, absolutely
> Maybe we should have solve the ISP snooping problem by making that illegal instead.
We could do both! ISP snooping is still a problem for metadata (SNI).
Apparently the cost of TLS these days is to subject yourself to whatever laws that countries of "free" TLS want to impose on you. That isn't very cheap.