If crypto researchers would try working on actual user facing software they would probably come up with more useful designs. As the moment (1) you have to be in

If crypto researchers would try working on actual user facing software they would probably come up with more useful designs. As the moment (1) you have to be insanely smart and careful to implement any reliable crypto (2) the crypto needs constant updates because researchers initial ideas are always full of weird unexpected holes (3) virtually all proposed crypto comes with multiple human interaction fails. I wish it were better, and I completely understand that it's tough to both research higher order mathematics and keep in mind human level interactions, but without something like that , I think we're going to stay stuck with the current state of overly technical, fragile, normal-user-hostile tech.