Sadly, many can't be trusted or bothered to use a secure means of communication. A lot of people think whatever they use for email or sms is 'secure.' Often healthcare, finance, and higher ed try to sidestep the liability as a result.
Classic Press is a fork of WordPress that leaves out Gutenberg and has all the legacy PHP < 7.4 stuff stripped out. It's nice. \
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https://www.classicpress.net/
I like Deezer. I've been using it and telling people about it since Spotify was insistent about being focused on chasing a politically charged content (over) investment instead of delivering quality, behavior driven content based on their algo.
It's easy to avoid buying things from Amazon. It's hard to avoid AWS. It would be insane to try to suss out what provider everyone that I buy stuff from uses, and their third party relationships. Regulation is better.
Sadly, many can't be trusted or bothered to use a secure means of communication. A lot of people think whatever they use for email or sms is 'secure.' Often healthcare, finance, and higher ed try to sidestep the liability as a result.