Check out dark.fail. Sure there are a TON of dark web markets but a lot of news sites and such. Tor sure is a bunch of botnets and hackers and such but there certainly are more “genuine” uses to that.

The alternative is no anonymous internet which is also not something I would want.

Also, based solely on gut feeling, the speed Tor from 10 years ago to today is night and day. Something tells me a ton of nodes are state actors and Tor is quasi broken. Not “buy an oz of weed FBI don’t move we’ll shoot” broken but if you are planning another 9/11 they probably can figure that shit out even if you are on Tor. I base that on zero facts.