As a silver lining to that particular cloud the shitty middleboxes made the case for work resulting from BCP #188 (Pervasive Monitoring Is An Attack) very easy.
It wouldn't be difficult to find engineers at an IETF meeting who aren't very interested in whether Fatemah can send messages to her mother without them being read by her husband - that's a policy problem, not their business. But once they realise the shitty middleboxes to prevent Fatemah from evading her husband's surveillance make their beautiful new protocol design undeployable they're on board with encrypting absolutely everything everywhere all the time.
It wouldn't be difficult to find engineers at an IETF meeting who aren't very interested in whether Fatemah can send messages to her mother without them being read by her husband - that's a policy problem, not their business. But once they realise the shitty middleboxes to prevent Fatemah from evading her husband's surveillance make their beautiful new protocol design undeployable they're on board with encrypting absolutely everything everywhere all the time.