What’s more important though? The public can’t particularly change things at that level. They don’t live at that level. It’s our job to help them. Just as they help me on non computer related stuff all the time. A barber shouldn’t be in charge of web encryption. It’s on us.
Also, I think the public has no problem with the government spying on other people. They just don’t want it spying on them. So in that regard, it opposing the policy, but instead mitigating the risk to your own communications is an expected result.
Though that gets... interesting, when we remember that the revelations were that the NSA was spying on <insert person here>, as it was/is untargeted dragnet “surveillance”. People still didn’t care though, politically
