Besides pointing out that a large chunk of what the original poster wrote is just factually incorrect, my point was that it’s hardly a “nightmare for those of us who travel”, since the remaining actual issues are so far solvable with a VPN, and even my mom can use a VPN.

Yes, it’s inconvenient and shouldn’t be this way, but it’s far from a nightmare (yet). The true nightmare is situation in a few places like the aforementioned China, which is where we may be headed judging by TFA, but we've a long way to go.