Does all the protesting by security agencies actually mean much, in terms of a signal? 1) If these measures are effective and stop them doing what they perceiv

Does all the protesting by security agencies actually mean much, in terms of a signal? 1) If these measures are effective and stop them doing what they perceive to be their job, they'd have to protest. 2) If they had access to the information by other means, they'd have to protest anyway, otherwise you'd be able to conclude we're in situation 1 My guess it's a bit of both, and they're mostly just losing their ability to mass surveil against low priority targets (e.g. populations), since cracking the encryption for absolutely all connections would be too much work.