At this point the only people I know who could or would use Pond are people who can compose crypto primitives on their own anyway.

Also if we are going to go all Pond and do messaging from the ground up, we need to acknowledge that the global passive adversary is real.

EDIT: after replying to rickisen below, I'm starting to see your point. Maybe we need Pond or bitmessage or a resurrected mixmaster if real people think TLS solves traffic analysis.