Think of it this way: what is more important to you, the convenience of exchanging text messages with your friends, or keeping these conversations private?
I don't quite see why our packets and devices shouldn't have the same protections.
That's different from arguing that they are mutually exclusive which I am not.
For example, I used to be on the extreme "pro privacy" end of the spectrum. But it is clear that philosophically speaking, privacy for everyone is not a completely positive ideal in all contexts. And that naturally raises the question about what other values privacy competes with, and how they should be balanced.
Intuitively, "convenience" should perhaps be considered less important than "privacy", but interestingly that's not what we observe actually happening in the real world.