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The only thing that turns people off is that they cooperate with governments. Well, if you're using it for your business you shouldn't worry about that unless it's illegal business, at which point you have bigger problems
They dont "cooperate with governments", they follow the laws they legally have to. All the cases I can think of where they gave info to a government with a legal order to do so, they gave information that has to be logged in order for the system to work and the subjects themselves used poor opsec eg: their real names for accounts and recovery emails...
Some privacy extremists have unrealistic expectations when they sign up to these things without fully understanding how it works and then blame the provider for something they were completely transparent about from the beginning.
You're right, they got called out as a "honeypot" for basic KYC and not having E2EE (which you can't with email AFAIK)