Indeed, but SNI is more than 10 years old now so very well supported. I'd appreciate someone else correcting me if I'm wrong here, but I believe SNI is also enabled by default (where it's supported).
Thanks for going deep into this, let me add though that it's not about an ideal world or bullying, HTTPS should be the default.
Lets Encrypt managed that for us already, pretty soon it will be the default.
AFAIK website hostname is visible when using SNI.