After the MoneroV fork Monero will be as "anonymous" as Bitcoin.
The few people that don't claim their MoneroV and cash out will be left with both compromised Monero holdings and an ever sinking market value.
For anybody thinking that it's 'smart' not to claim XMV... Wat is smart is to have a protocol where this kind of attack isn't even possible. Don't just blame XMV for attacking Monero, blame Monero for having a critical vulnerability. It's as much a social exploit as a technical one. The technical one makes the social attack possible in the first place. FIX THE PROTOCOL!
Hard to see how this could be done on a protocol level. Anyone can fork, and how can you prevent people exposing their private keys to the new fork if they want to?
I will move my Monero to a new wallet just before the fork, and the original Monero to another new wallet just after. That should solve the problem for me. Of course, many won't bother to do this.
As to the key image attack, there were several mitigations that were discussed and one that I believe has been approved on github and should be included in the upcoming release. To say the Dev team and/or community is doing nothing is false.
Talking about PR 3322.