I think you are wrong. If you are right, that means too many good people within TC and outside of it (those with the skills and technical knowledge) are remaining silent. Why isn't there a hue and cry across the technical landscape of authoritative people decrying this Orwellian architecture?
If anything, I think the NSA is demonstrating the fallibility of the current architecture. They, like us, got tired of the adoption rate of TC. And since they don't have direct market power, because government heads are wholly-owned toadies of various incumbents and because those incumbents are milking the current architecture, their strategy is to expose it for its lack. The only viable alternative will be left and will be thoroughly vetted. Apart from the NSA.
Maybe Snowden is even a player in this drama. It's hard to believe millions of secrets walked out the door. And the revelations that have been made, I think, were known anyway by a lot of people behind the scenes. That's why you got statements from people like Scott McNealy and Eric Schmidt about privacy being dead and people should get over it. Privacy is dead with the current architecture. Not the new one.
And that is what is being emphatically demonstrated and the incumbents cannot block it. But they can now get on board.
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