I don't think it is disingenuous. Any company that creates a new communications channel increases the surface area for government to intercept. Any company that creates a service which you interact with, with high frequency, creates a log of behavior for the government to intercept.

The only difference with modern web portals is centralization, which allows the government to seize it in one chunk, vs distributed amongst N different organizations, but that's really only marginally more secure, because the government has no problem bulk subpoena-ing all of the major service providers.

The only real protection is to use pseudonymity everywhere and to never reuse a pseudonym between two different services.