Yes, how dare anyone take care to insulate debates from ad hom fallacies and protect their families/careers from internet whackjobs?
Fuck Satoshi Nakamoto for being an anonymous coward! Nobody ever said disrupting gold, central banks, and fintech settlement would be safe or easy! Man up and make sacrifices! The revolution needs martyrs!
And fuck Publius for writing all those mean things about how the King of England treats his American Colonies. Such a gutless terror-symp, am I right?
The purpose of anonymous speech is, as you mentioned, to avoid adverse consequences of speaking.
In general you can divide this further into two categories:
1. Avoiding the adverse consequences of telling the truth
2. Avoiding the adverse consequences of telling a lie
1. Is admirable, 2. is contemptible.
PS Still waiting for your concern over lack of an objective, precise definition for Bitcoin network "overcapacity" to result in some amazing new concepts and dimensionless numbers.
After all the hand wringing you performed over our unforgivably sloppy use of "decentralized" I'm sure such research is your top priority.

I have no idea what you're talking about now.