So you create an non default http mirror for that minority, instead of making the majority insecure.

so if north korea is subjugating some poor souls over there, the whole world must suffer along? there could be a setting with a big warning to disable the default HTTPS behaviour...

Which countries? I’ve only seen HTTP connections tampered with in practice, and China’s GFW blocks HTTP no different than HTTPS from what I’ve seen.

Also some companies, to allow IDS to inspect traffic without having to extract keys from clients.