These horror stories are so rare that the vast majority of people has never personally met anyone who personally knew anyone who had it happen. So it's all entirely theoretical and speculative for people who are busy and have social life goals. It's rightfully seen in similar light as the pepper hobby or extreme zero waste green philosophy. Worrying about it is basically a hobby, an identity, a community, an esthetic. Most people have some other hobby and identity and don't need this one.
Or in countries where people criticizing the government policy disappear.
Yet it's a reality for Billions of people in Russia, china, India until not so long ago.
I mean, the world isn't just limited to the west where, at worst, you will get personalized advertisement and in very rare occasion something worst.
How would for instance, Women in the USA having to remove period tracking app because they are afraid it could be used by the government against them, fit in your thought ?
It’s neither black or white, privacy nuthead or political activist. There is a wide spectrum.
People who have been for instance wrongly jailed because Google gave their location history to law enforcement and they happened to be near a crime scene, these people they understand the value of privacy.