But it can also be easy to take tiny steps that don't appreciably improve your position, and then tell yourself you've made things better. In the case of covid, this was all of the surface cleaning; with privacy it's often people picking a few of the standard recommendations but leaving such large remaining gaps that their overall situation is minimally changed.
Because this is often a standard emotional response to very large problems. It's one of the reasons so many people (mainly conservatives) downplayed the risks of COVID. It can be mentally easier to downplay or ignore a scary problem rather than acknowledge it.