Encryption is awesome, that's why governments are staging PsyOps to demonize it and demanding backdoors from developers.
https://steemit.com/conspiracy/@lavater/chloe-ayling-kidnapped-by-black-death-group-hoax-another-psyop-to-regulate-bitcoin-encryption
personally I think the NSA already has the technology to crack something like Veracrypt, some say even decentralized encryption ala Bitcoin will be at risk with the NSA's Quantum Computer, though for now seems to be beyond their reach. I guess it is a cat & mouse game. Encryption hopefully will be always one step ahead of the controllers.
Veracrypt surely helps protect files from your average hacker intrusion, so surely worth using.