Appreciate your concern is genuine, but I think most of the people benefit from this lockdown mode are people who are mostly technically illiterate, and at the same time they are also cash strapped, unless they are the journalists from well funded media company.
What these people needed from the tech community is a fool proof failed safe way to turn the security level to the max.
What Apple just did is going in this direction. I am hope Google can do the same.
