This is stupid. Encryption was never the point of SSL, the point was always to verify that the site you got to is actully the one you wanted. Encryption was needed to avoid forgery.

Security 101 says that you need to identify the threat before deciding how to fight it. What threat exactly is the for me when I send unencrypted packet to the wptavern server?

If the idea is to protect against countries snooping the traffic then it is mostly a fail.
1. The ISPs still know what urls you have accessed
2. Probably all countries have a root CA and they can issue certificates for any site on the net and conduct a MITM attack like the iranian goverment done against gmail several years ago.

If the point is just encryption then it will be much simpler to have the browser handle self signed centificates in a less intimidating way then they do now, and provide utilities to create your own