The US government might be able to pressure Intel into doing something with SGX, but there are way too many eyes on this for it to go unnoticed in my opinion, especially considering SGX has been around for so long and messed with by so many security researchers.

The US government also likely learned a lesson from early attempts at backdoors (RSA, etc) that this kind of things do not stay hidden and do not reflect well.

We've thought about this long and hard and planning to mitigate this as much as possible. Meanwhile we still offer something that is a huge step forward compared to what is standard in the industry.

Well, if by against governments you mean against enforcement of regional IP protection then yes. The major use case of VPN is geo projection and torrenting, not high falutin' privacy the good guys depend on. The 2nd major use case is avoiding crypto KYC.