It also reduces incentives to actually make moves that benefit privacy. Because if the people who say they care about privacy aren't going to support you, why bother?
Nah, the people who care are happy. The problem is the guys who like to talk. It's the same with security. There's like an army of people who've learned about it from internet commentary exclusively and they bluster a lot as a substitute for competence.
Tell me about it! The security people. yum update every 3 hours, reboot every 6 hours, hyperthreading off for some theoretical reason, what else! There's security as in keeping your iOS device on auto updates when you have it connected to WiFi, and then there's internet forum security...