Why? Isn't it preferable to provide a more secure and private environment at the beginning?

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Or is this another Bitcoin maximalist thing that privacy doesn't matter?

You can use a vpn for regular interactions, and then tor for things that need more than that.

Privacy is fine but using a lightning node behind TOR has been one of the biggest blunders of the network from a performance standpoint

It makes everything super slow. The performance is terrible