People rarely use encryption for email so it's not a top-level feature. If you want to communicate securely with someone use Signal or WhatsApp -- email is the

People rarely use encryption for email so it's not a top-level feature. If you want to communicate securely with someone use Signal or WhatsApp -- email is the wrong medium. You could send encrypted paper mail too, but that would be equally cumbersome. Choose a medium and tools that already support encryption. It's a bad fit for email, and so got relegated to the obscure settings because almost no one will use it.