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I disagree.
1) non-root users can fetch source packages with pull-lp-source
2) non-root users can fetch source packages with chdist
3) ubuntu users buy pre-installed IoT, routers, phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, servers, clouds, mainframes
4) For fast majority of ubuntu users, the concept and religion of free software is valuable
5) But most of them do not practice their rights.
Yes, pulling source and rebuilding a package is nice. From commandline, which one needs to know how to use... And to do it probably, one will be doing it in sbuild anyway.
I find it ironic that most of Ubuntu products have sources disabled, including launchpad builders, yet the "default" is enabled by default. In practice, it really only needs to be enabled on developer machines which by definition is always less than the number of installations.
This is the same sort of logic, where "obvious" seems to end up as default. E.g. default ubuntu archive location is ports.ubuntu.com because majority of architectures are hosted there, with amd64 & i386 as an exception. yet in plenty of configs i see default set to archive.ubuntu.com with 5 overrides stating that it should be ports.ubuntu.com. Whilst we provide sources by default, it's an opt-in behavior of an installed machine, which requires an interactive user, with a highly specialized knowledge to perform the operation.