>Criminals used to speak in code, meet clandestine, use burner phones and websites were easy to shut down.

And none of these things were ever made illegal.

>Ordinary people do not care about e2ee.

I am an ordinary person, and I care about the right to be secure and private in my communications. The founders of the United States put it in our Bill of Rights. Mail in America can't just be read without a warrant; it is protected by the 4th Amendment.