I absolutely consider plenty of conversations with friends and loved ones absolutely private. What your argument misses is that end-to-end encryption has a ver

I absolutely consider plenty of conversations with friends and loved ones absolutely private. What your argument misses is that end-to-end encryption has a very important role - keeping information safe from hacks of the messaging platform. If a messaging service is hacked, and the database dumped, I’d prefer that what they get was encrypted by keys on my device, not keys that are able to be stolen by the hack (or not being encrypted at rest at all). Extremely personal, private and intimate conversations, photos and videos have been leaked that way. End to end encryption prevents that. Secondly, it protects my messages from being able to be snooped on by bad actors at the messaging service (like a nosy sysadmin). Somebody could easily be physically stalked using information gleaned in this scenario, or a bad actor could use the information gathered from reading their messages to groom a minor for example! I’ve read stories of cyber-stalking happening in this way, like a Google Hangouts SRE who was reading a woman’s messages, messaging her inappropriately, and when she would block him, unblocking himself through the backend (luckily he was eventually found out and fired). End to end encryption would help from these people being able to see messages or steal photos an pod images. There are even more scenarios and circumstances when it’s important. So I’d say your comment is not as much a ‘devil’s advocate view’ as a ‘haven’t thought hard enough about possible threats’ view.