The restic team refuses to have unencrypted backups just "because security".

I hate such an approach when someone assumes that whatever happens their opinion is the best one in the world and everyone else is wrong.

I do not want to encrypt my backups because I know what I am doing and I have very, very good reasons for that.

Restic could allow a --do-not-encrypt switch and backup by default.

The arrogance of the devs is astonishing and this si why I will not use Restic and i regret it very much because this is a very good backup solution.

Try Borg.