Everything what you're saying is true, but it doesn't change the fact that HTTPS with self-signed certificate is more secure than HTTP. It took Letsencrypt to

Everything what you're saying is true, but it doesn't change the fact that HTTPS with self-signed certificate is more secure than HTTP. It took Letsencrypt to make HTTPS accessible to the majority of the web because there was no cheap way before, because self-signed certs were punished by browsers while unencrypted connections were fine. We could have been full on moving from an encrypted (self-signed) web to a trusted (CA) web by now instead of moving from a plain-text to a trusted web. Also, self-signed certs still prevent a MITM if you ever connected to the site before, similar to the trust-on-first-connection behavior of SSH. Given the widespread deployment and trust of SSH I'm suprised this people act so different with HTTPS.