I think that most initially looked down on the security through obscurity layer as flawed only because many people, a few years ago, thought that this is the on

I think that most initially looked down on the security through obscurity layer as flawed only because many people, a few years ago, thought that this is the only layer they needed. Somehow over time many people began to think that this layer is not useful at all. A little bit of thinking about the issue would absolve one of the approach to completely exclude that layer. Also it is so easy and cheap to implement is another reason to discard it because in many organizations today people think that security can only be had by spending boatloads of money on people and software. Surely a simple, fast and cheap solution can't really reduce risk now can it? And then on top of those things people do not think about, nor fully understand risk, hence the whole Covid 19 scare and the many other things in the world people are afraid of.