Yes, these are a lot of valid reasons. My point is that the GP did NOT threatmodel, and instead claimed a vague "I want HTTPS". HTTPS is so easy to do now (and

Yes, these are a lot of valid reasons. My point is that the GP did NOT threatmodel, and instead claimed a vague "I want HTTPS". HTTPS is so easy to do now (and, hey, the manifesto page offers an https version indeed, it's just not HSTS enabled) that there're few reasons not to use it. But still: you should threat model.