You're neglecting to consider the most important aspect of HTTPS, even if you don't care about privacy or believe the encryption will eventually be broken: integrity.
HTTPS significantly raises the bar on MITM attacks, such as ISPs adding or replacing ads with their own.
It also prevents folks sitting in the same coffeeshop as you from snooping.
Calling "generally useless" is incredibly uncharitable.
Considering that HTTPS completely and utterly fails to solve its stated purpose of cryptographic verification of content, it's basically security theater, the last vestiges of which have been completely broken by LetsEncrypt.
But I'm a luddite who also thinks we shouldn't have gone beyond HTML 4.01 as a spec, and that JS in the browser is a pox upon the web.
HTTPS significantly raises the bar on MITM attacks, such as ISPs adding or replacing ads with their own.
It also prevents folks sitting in the same coffeeshop as you from snooping.
Calling "generally useless" is incredibly uncharitable.