To be fair there are a large number of people that think the AMBE vocoders should be removed from the ham bands too. Personally I don't think they run afoul of the rules since the intent is not to obscure meaning.
I think encryption is a terrible idea for amateur radio not because of companies doing things (they have ample land mobile allocations), but because it would be filled with cryptoshit scams in no time at all. I know of at least one RF-based cryptocurrency already. I'd also be worried about high speed traders on the HF bands since they're already trying to get licenses in the shortwave broadcast bands as it is. Not to mention I've yet to hear of a legit use case for encryption in the amateur bands that isn't served just as well by other licensed (and licensed-by-rule) services.
My belief is that the core purpose of ham radio is experimentation, so playing with modern protocols, modulation schemes and techniques is really important for it to remain relevant in the future. It can't forever exist as an HF/VHF AM/FM service forever. The future is AES/RSA, DSSS/CSS, internet access, and mobile mesh systems.
All that said, if we went to allowing it with a cleartext ID, how do you think the crypto scams would defeat that in a scalable way?
I think encryption is a terrible idea for amateur radio not because of companies doing things (they have ample land mobile allocations), but because it would be filled with cryptoshit scams in no time at all. I know of at least one RF-based cryptocurrency already. I'd also be worried about high speed traders on the HF bands since they're already trying to get licenses in the shortwave broadcast bands as it is. Not to mention I've yet to hear of a legit use case for encryption in the amateur bands that isn't served just as well by other licensed (and licensed-by-rule) services.