If ANON was needed so badly why did the dev's not submit the idea to the Bitcoin core dev's foundation etc ?
Was it because they knew it would be rejected ?
Exactly. Bitcoin will never have anonymity feature. that is why coins as Monero brought something to the Crypto table.
There are many alt's that claim to be the main anonymous coin; dash, blackcoin, monero, shadowcoin etc.
But we all know the only coin that will win, will be the coin with the best marketing.