I certainly agree that something that just works is by far the most important priority and do worry about anything that could muddy that message. On the other

I certainly agree that something that just works is by far the most important priority and do worry about anything that could muddy that message. On the other hand, I suppose what the parent proposes could be useful for users with heightened security concerns even if they are only a tiny minority, similarly to how tor is useful (and, in fact, using this setting would be less conspicuous than using tor and also less suspicious since there is no way of using it for criminal activity).