Hopefully, by making this kind of exploitation common knowledge for the more tech-oriented crowd, we will be able to bring about change in the companies that manufacture the devices. You're right that the vast majority of people do not realize why they need to secure their infrastructure and would not know how to do it if they did. For that kind of person, the default needs to change to something more secure.

This kind of "change through widespread knowledge of exploitation" strategy saw some success in changing the default encryption schemes of WiFi routers. So, we're already kind of in the same area.