You may not need that extra protection (now), but society does. It’s just like all the other kinds of safety measures we expect, such as seat belts, regulation

You may not need that extra protection (now), but society does. It’s just like all the other kinds of safety measures we expect, such as seat belts, regulations w.r.t. food safety, fire protection, standards for tool safety, etc. Nothing of that is needed, until you need it (I’ve never needed seat belts or airbags, for example, but can understand society requiring them) If the industry hadn’t forced the world to https, I think governments would have.