While that may be true, it's still prudent to decrease your attack surface as much as possible.

Correct, but advocating for, and supporting technologies promote privacy should be every internet users absolute mandate.

It is this way because we allow it. Case in point, tech farming of metadata is so lucrative it is estimated in the Trillions of dollars annually. How much of that data is ours by right but because of ignorance and apathy we allow ourselves to be constantly monetized and made poor while the product of our interaction - labor, as it were - is claimed by others?

How would that alter the first world economy if we had legal and economic claim to the metadata produced by our use of these devices?

How would that reign in an industry currently more powerful than most nations? How would that affect the individuals ability to adapt to an increasingly predatory economic environment?

It doesnt have to be about total prohibition, it should be about user choice. The data is yours, becoming aware of its use, its value, and what is done with it should be your choice as well.

Or near any such thing.