> Is this a - the NSA made a offer to backdoor nobody can refuse and the idealists abandon the "standard"- situation?

Why would the NSA bother to target PGP, when the biggest threat to their surveillance is the use of other encryption mechanisms with better usability (and therefore lower chance of misuse)?

If anything, the NSA would want to encourage people using PGP, because it's far easier to break PGP using the default settings than any modern tool, even before you account for the extremely high likelihood of "user error".