You ignored / redacted all my points apart from viewkeys so - you are marketing them as enabling compliance with financial authorities, then when I point out the potential backdoor from extortion / seizure you're saying they aren't any use to authorities that demand you hand them over - makes no sense at all - if it's good enough to satisfy tax official's compliance, it's good enough to *not* have as an open feature that said officials can *force* any Monero holder to hand over - end of story.
What I said was view keys don't undo mixing. They undo stealth, which allows disclosing the payments you receive (so for example, a company can document its income to an auditor or a charity can document or disclose publicly its donations). It doesn't show where those coins came from. That's the same as any other form of mixing. With Dash, for example, you can show (or have seized) your wallet logs or your wallet files your spent keys, or your HD wallet seed, which reveal the coins you have received but not where they came from (assuming they came through a mixer). Same thing, different mechanism.
and unfortunately I think viewkeys is the only innovation Monero added to Cryptonote in the last year right?
No. There is a whole year in review that lists some of the work that Monero has done. That doesn't even include view keys, although the first actual deployed uses of view keys (such as the back end of MyMonero) were done over the past year.
On the issue of "cutting out", I always leave the link back to the original message. Click it if you want to see it. There is no reason to requote the entire text of every single message 100 times on a thread. lrn2forum.