I keep seeing this comment on Hacker News and it makes me wonder. Do you only speak to engineers in your life? I'm on the side of people who think this is a violent threat against the openness of the web, but let's be real. Most of the people you'll run into on the street will have no better sense of this than they did the paradigm shift to HTTPS. In fact it will likely be even more transparent than that, which is part of what makes it so insidious. If you're waiting for a public to mobilise against a self-evident threat, this will fly into being without protest. Most people will need to be made to understand its danger, because they absolutely will not flee by themselves.