I'm not sure which society you are referring to specifically. The one I'm most familiar with (Catalunya) don't really care how things happen, as long as they can get communication access to each other that is not controlled by a government entity. Mesh networks is just one way to achieve this.
But in the end, always good to have choices so the ones that happy with what they have, can always stay that way.
> I literally just wrote above that I do want that. I also don't care about collecting any data.
I believe you, but frankly, most of the society doesn't want to build mesh apps and (hopefully...) finally started to care about their privacy and data, and that's the point.