The word encryption doesn't even seem to be mentioned there. At the very least it would help against traffic shaping, which you know is coming once net neutrality rules are dead.
Bittorrent already had an obfuscation protocol wrapper for years. It was effective for a while but the companies that implement traffic shaping equipment stepped up their game and probably rely on traffic flow matching now.
It is an arms race that is not won by updating a slowly evolving core protocol.
It is an arms race that is not won by updating a slowly evolving core protocol.