You're right and with you in spirit, but that's more to the point. Anything the state doesn't like get's neutered and co-opted or pushed to the black market (aka the free market and only place you can enforce Bitcoins permissionlessness)
"It is evident that states actually prefer to ban popular things. The following is a short list of commonly-banned popular things:
Drugs
Gambling
Prostitution
Religion
Speech
Assembly
Trade
Migration
Weapons
Labor
Books
Money"
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Hearn-Error