An offer of sorts was once made as a compromise.
What if we allow the government to restrict the use of hard encryption of such sophistication that it cannot possibly be broken... but the government allows the following.
All digital traffic will be encrypted at a level that the government can break with just modest effort... but with a key length sufficient that it renders it impossible to decrypt even a small fraction of all the digital traffic.
This allows for access to data necessary for national security but does not allow wholesale snooping.
The proposal was rejected very firmly!
Tells you a lot doesn’t it!
Our cell phone communications are virtually unprotected against nation-state level snooping because threats were made to weaken the security of the data. The criterion was that that data must be able to be decrypted in real-time...so the encryption had to be very weak.
Then we have allowed a bunch of lawyers to create a law about a subject that they simply do not understand.