Why do we care about end-to-end encryption

Question

In the last few years phones and apps have been touting themselves as better than other phones/services because their messaging has end-to-end encryption, or some other variant of secure messaging. Why do we care?

Edit: Thanks for the answers, everyone!

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Answer 1

Imagine every letter, every email, and every conversation you have could be listened to by countless unknown people, government’s, organisations etc. It would erode the privacy and freedoms of everyone.

So end-to-end encryption is a way to try and prevent this, by building it into the products we use, we reduce the chance of all our conversations being sold or used against us.