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I think it's worth the effort for people to consider how their data might get abused, and then look for proactive ways to protect themselves and reduce their areas of exposure.
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Sure, but I think most people worry about the wrong things most of the time. For example, despite using one-off email addresses for everything and never giving out your real address all it takes is clicking on one link in whatever emails that do arrive and you can be hacked. In other words, 99.9% of online attacks are random, not targeting you specifically, yet people worry the most about the Black Swan event of someone collecting personal information and using it against them. So, I would argue, it is far more important to use an email service that blocks or properly labels suspicious emails. And, the service needs to provide an effective way to block or report dangerous emails. That's a failure I have found with many smaller services.