I'm not sure what to say. I love the legal profession; I certainly respect privilege. Frankly, the Supreme Court has said it's a constitutional right. So I get it.
However, do I think that lawyers should be able to simply wave their white flags, or...white flag is the wrong word, but just wave a blanket exemption and say, no, we're not going to be subject to these rules because it's privileged? No, I don't think so, because, to your point about whether it compromises non-lawyers, yes, it does.
Does that situation raise policy reasons for having people, such as a lot of the people around our table here, possess statutory privilege? Perhaps it does. But that's a question for another day.