It reads like "definitely should not happen" was indeed happening!
I wonder if some techs got a basic unencrypted test working, then a pointy haired boss moved them on to another project and it got deployed into use with no-one setting up the encryption.
You literally wrote that they don't represent you, so what else could I reasonably infer (not assume) from that? I bet you'd be more offended if I assumed you were lying in everything you wrote... but great thanks to you for petitioning them. It's up to us all to make our representatives care.
Sorry, that's not how representative democracy works. You should tell them that, not us, and why.
Those apt commands are in a less-good order. It's usually better to update apt, then upgrade the system.
I upgrade as soon as reasonably possible after the notification appears, if the system isn't on auto-upgrade.