The “usability nightmare” isn’t PGP/GPG fault, it’s PKI. PKI is hard to use because of its decentralized and free nature.

The “fix” is to channel everything through google, or a government, or some third party that makes it easy and usable, but removes the main benefits of security, transparency, and independence.

I think the reason GPG is all we have and has been for 20+ years is because that’s as good as it gets and better than nothing.

It lets people who know how to use it communicate securely.

So you can document your way out of an impossible to communicate securely nightmare.