Well, it starts with being one of the best tools we currently have to preserve freedom of communication, so getting it in wider use is a good thing. But it's hard to get across the necessity of general free communication to most people basically by definition - otherwise they'd just fix things by voting and technical approaches would be unnecessary. But the democratic mob isn't looking to protect individuals from its wrath, and nuanced arguments about assigning an appropriate context to messages from a public communications network haven't had legs either. So the go-to politically acceptable narrative becomes the standard US callous altruism of undermining other governments.

And yes, by the time you're on a short "of interest" list, you're fucked. (with the only real solution to the traffic fingerprinting being to get peer-talking encryption software in widespread use for everyday tasks).