Thank you for posting your vision. It's so easy to just criticize. Divining and then advocating for a better world is really hard.
Pretty sure I agree with most of your points. Especially wrt EFF.org; after all these years, I still can't figure out what they want. It'd take me a (long) while to determine if I agree with your conclusions, because this is hard hard topic.
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I was also weened as an anarcho-libertarian. I've never forgiven the Clinton Admin for the Clipper chip. And it's been all down hill ever since.
But hot damn. There are seriously bad people in the world. How can I ignore real world evil and actual human suffering, just to maximize my own (perceived) well being?
I have friends who work on public safety policy like human trafficking. It's absolutely horrific. And I can barely acknowledge child pornography as a thing -- I mean what the actual fuck -- much less register how bad things are.
After decades of pondering this stuff, I still have no clue, no ideas on how to balance the needs of the few with the needs of the many.
However, any position which simply ignores the negative consequences of encryption technologies is not serious, and not worth further consideration.
FWIW, I've done work on both election integrity and electronic medical records. Individual privacy is precious to me, and a hill I was willing to die on.