I’m not the parent poster, but one reason I can suggest is: When you know about the security properties of using the HTTP protocol over internet, and proceed t

I’m not the parent poster, but one reason I can suggest is: When you know about the security properties of using the HTTP protocol over internet, and proceed to visit a read-only plain-HTTP website, your attention and time are used up unnecessary on thoughts like “did the author really include this bit of content, or is it being MITM’ed?” with no inexpensive way to find out.