A screwdriver beat a hammer in a screw driving competition. well done.
Maybe it sounds impressive when hammers are super hyped and everyone and their mother is driving their screws with them, but it honestly really isn't.
I think people misunderstand. I too would prefer privacy, but theres a big BUT.
Due to how the federation works, anyone who is tech savvy enough can already see votes. One way is to run an instance.
This change doesn't lower privacy, it aligns expectations with reality. A false sense of privacy, which people obviously show here in the comments, is way more dangerous.
so, when you drop an egg on the floor, you increased its entropy too much, and since entropy isn't reversible, your dropped egg isn't recoverable