Depends on your definition of encrypted I suppose. Many laptop SSDs are technically encrypted by default, but unless otherwise specified use a default key to un

Depends on your definition of encrypted I suppose. Many laptop SSDs are technically encrypted by default, but unless otherwise specified use a default key to unlock the drive. Sure, they are still not encrypted in any meaningful sense by default, but the barrier to entry is quite far removed by not requiring a long process to enable it. A process which sometimes would require reinstallation, something an average person would likely not bother with. While installing macOS Catalina the user gets prompted to activate this encryption, providing the system has a disk that supports that kind of full disk encryption I mentioned above.