I don't buy your assessment that an untraceable UTXO is *required* on your ln channels for complete anonymity, though it certainly does improve it. Omce you open a channel, the only public information available is who you opened a channel with, not who you transacted with. One does not need to be a sysadmin to run a private ln node, there are packaged solutions available. Agreed the tools can be improved to increase privacy in a straightforward way.
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I'm talking about getting to the level of privacy that Monero provides by default. Yes having a nonKYC UTXO is vital for having no link of your channel activity to your identity from you channel peer.
You need to look into timing analysis and BGP vulnerabilities in the Tor protocol. Lightning hops are vulnerable to the same attack vectors and the more metadata you give, the more trivial the deanonymization.
Yes, I understand these vulnerabilities of tor and the lightning network. The meaning of "privacy" is a matter of degree, not a binary quantity.