> Sure, you can also destroy evidence! This is already a crime we deal with.
That is just assuming the premise. Destruction of evidence is a crime, but destruction of private lawful communications is not. The FBI has no right to a married couple's sexting.
The usual case for destruction of evidence is one of two things. Either they produce some emails where you're conspiring to destroy evidence, or that they catch you in the act, seize the evidence you were destroying, and then use it to prove that what you were destroying was evidence.
Finding someone with a bucket full of confetti or an encrypted drive but no key isn't evidence of a crime, and it's unreasonable to be able to put anybody in jail just because they shredded their old credit card statements or can't remember the password for an old device that has been in a closet for three years.