If you're not worried about a fairly well-resourced government agency uncovering whatever network activity you believe needs to be anonymized, why would you be using Tor at all?
Because your ex-spouse wants to murder you.
Because you just escaped Scientology, or another cult.
Because you're a criminal. The NSA doesn't handle that.
Because you're a journalist talking to sources in the industry you're investigating.
Using victims' devices and communications in order to locate, and then harass, trap, or attack them, is commonplace for stalkers.
And of those people, how many people have ever even heard of Tor, let alone know how to use it?
Stalkers want to make it impossible to live a normal life. They try to make it impossible to go to work or school, to use phones, email, messaging services, etc. Already knew my contact info, and got new ones by asking mutual friends. Called the the landline and cell and work phone and hung up or heavy-breathed into the phone hundreds of times a day. Telco won't help with this or admit who's doing it w/o a subpoena, which I couldn't realistically get. They tried to get various online accounts, including employer provided, to be flooded/brigaded/spamed/banned.
You don't have to be a leet haxor to do social engineering, sim swapping, and other crying on the phone to customer service type of attacks on other people's accounts. You just have to be pissed off and risk tolerant.
Not saying tor is a good-fit solution to these problems, just saying that "Because your ex-spouse wants to murder you", and also you have a day-to-day practical necessity to find a secure, hard to block way to communicate on, or access, the internet is not actually an exotic problem.
I'm glad we agree!
Knowing that there's one thing they can't get to you on is huge peace of mind. Not needing to think about your stalker, because there's no way for them to hunt you there.
I concede that tor is probably not a useful tool in general for these people. I meant to point out only that one needn't be paranoid to fear one's spouse.
Those are situations that people deal with, but suggesting they use Tor is not going to help them. (Apart from some very specific situations)
Heck - FBI is allowed to do the same damn thing with the data they're given by the NSA. Y'know, the whole "backdoor search loophole" which amounts to laundering authorities across agencies to get access to data they wouldn't otherwise be permitted to have.
Because you want to avoid creepy targeted ads.
Because you live in a country that blocks many legitimate websites.
Because you are looking for information about abortion and live in countries like Iran or US
They'll just employ parallel construction to avoid exposure.