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You can make a seamless experience so that people don't even realize that their email is encrypted, but then the problem becomes: if their computer crashes and they lose their private key, they have now lost access to every previous email ever written. That's just unacceptable. I closely guard several backups of my private key, but most people aren't going to create an enormous single point of failure like that.

[drdaeman]

Backups can be seamless, too.

Just a tiny unobtrusive icon "hey, your key wasn't backed up, want to fix that?" would probably do the trick.

And with a proper passphrase I think one can even backup to the cloud(tm) without much worries.