In my experience, every problem in security has a simple solution. Provided that is the only problem you care to solve.
Worried about your data being breached? Don't collect any.
Worried about hackers getting in from the net? Cut the cord.
The problem being that the simple solution is also completely useless because what makes security so difficult is that every security solution changes the balance of power.
I was an active participant in the crypto-wars in the 1990s. If you remember, there was an attempt to use 'for the children' as a trump card then as well. And one individual who was running a very well funded pro-censorship organization then is now part of a group that assiduously promotes propaganda from a hostile foreign government.
The feature of the current discussions that makes me think the proposals are raised in bad faith is the fact that in the UK at least we have government ministers who have introduced a bill that clearly makes end to end encryption criminal and when challenged, they deny the fact point blank.
