Despite how troubling this is, I have trouble accepting that end-to-end encryption is useless. It still offers significant protection from being monitored even if that protection can be theoretically circumvented by lower level methods.
+1 You're absolutely right; I really just meant to say that it could be circumvented by specific parties. We absolutely do need end-to-end encryption everywhere to protect information while in transit. But if someone is worried about a tyrannical government, then end-to-end encryption may not solve that person's problem.