This is my takeaway as well. No one who’s getting into the privacy space goes from ‘I guess I’ll install Ublock Origin’ to ‘I manually decode all my OTP secrets in order to decrease attack surface’ in 5 seocnds flat-- usually they learn a little and stay there, or stay somewhere in the middle.
It’s more an observation that in the There Are Wasps In Your House club, where we check for if there are wasps in our houses, there are, indeed, wasps in your house. You have to be at least vaguely on the lookout for bad news-- otherwise you can’t stay updated. I think it’s more an unavoidable effect of the ecosystem we’re in-- and, unfortunately, the venn diagram between ‘keeping watch like a meerkat for the digital hyenas’ and ‘collapsing into a paranoid echo chamber’ are not a circle, but sometimes it wanes close.