Also, on reflection, I don't really agree with the characterization "only defends against a narrow set of attacks". To me, it's a broad and significant set of attacks that are defended against with encryption at rest: the most likely way to get your secrets stolen is for someone to get access to your physical hardware (stolen laptop; evil maid attack), or perhaps getting access to backups of your filesystem. True that someone actually taking control remotely is a big risk too, especially on Windows, but that is such a catastrophic failure mode that nothing matters .. not a good excuse to have zero defences imo - people regularly assume some level of security at least on MacOS and Linux and they should be able to, I think. A desktop is not a phone.

Anyway all arguable I guess. But not giving the option or any warning - I don't see a justification of it, really.