Defeating traffic analysis has too many downsides for most users, I think the perfect is the enemy of the good here. Having at least working confidentiality and

Defeating traffic analysis has too many downsides for most users, I think the perfect is the enemy of the good here. Having at least working confidentiality and integrity to the content of communications in messaging would be a step up. The NSA will still be able to see who you're talking to, but the crypto-libertarian utopia is not about to arrive any time soon, especially with FreeNet like systems, but getting most people on a better system that reduces the amount of snooping, is better than building an idealized system which the great unwashed masses won't use.