that's not the "sentiment of a true plutocrat and elitist" at all-- it's the sentiment of a realist. and what is a "true plutocrat", anyway? sounds like some "no true scotsman" / eye of the holder bs to me, honestly.
(TLDs are stupid at this point. If it was up to me we would kill all of them except .com and .org)
A bit tangential, but ignoring reality for a minute wouldn't it make more sense to kill .com and .org as well and retain only the country codes (ie .us, .uk, .cn, etc)? At least it would make the various jurisdictional issues clear.
(In a perfect world, I also wish there were legislation forcing any and all local government entities to use appropriate <service>.gov.<country> domains. It is incredibly difficult to explain to the average person why a few government websites have .com or .org or other random TLDs, and the inconsistency of it all makes things easier for scammers.)
Take a look at the Public Suffix List because you'll need to do away with a lot of TLDs.
And that's why seeing ".com" is important. You just proved his point, duh.
If people checking the link was a concern the whole spam/phishing scamming industry would be out of a job