I never felt that, and I'm here since the beginning. It was always obvious that pseudonymity was not enough, and any attempt to partition funds was doomed from the start unless I never did transfers across wallets. Incidentally, that is why I got into Monero very early on, I recognized the (should be obvious but apparently not) problem Bitcoin had, and still has.

I just finished a book called Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg. And if you are a Bitcoin user, you should absolutely read it if you have not already.

Fully agree. Monero was an obvious iteration of Bitcoin as early as 2010. It took some time to materialise as at the beginning people thought those upgrades would come to Bitcoin.