I'd say it's more like a global broad push to kill privacy than encryption specifically. Encryption is a big part of it, but not the whole picture

* Flock monitoring

* Border device searches

* Age controls and the implied "hand over real ID"

* Push for backdoors

* Palantir & DOGE grabbing data

* Move towards cloud (and less ability to afford own hardware)

* Secure boot style attestation

* Cross device tracking

* CF and friends acting as internet police

* GrapheneOS troubles

* Independent sites dying & more focus on walled gardens

...some of those aren't necessarily intentional (e.g. price of hardware), but it's hard not to read this as a larger agenda of sorts. Or maybe I'm just paranoid haha