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The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting.
You can use encryption to keep secrets, but, in using encryption, may let others know that you even have a secret at all.
So, the very best kind of encryption is both un-openable without a very large securely transported key AND not obviously (or even unobviously) encrypted at all.
@futurebird one of the beautiful results from cryptography is that securely encrypted data is indistinguishable from random noise to anyone without the key. So anywhere there's naturally randomness, you can swap it out with encrypted data and nobody will be any the wiser.
Plus as others have mentioned, if everyone encrypts everything, the fact that there is encryption going on is a lot less interesting. Seeing encrypted web traffic used to mean you were visiting a bank or something, now it just means you're using the web in 2025.