Unfortunately, to enact that vision original Bitcoin wallet software needed to use pay-to-ip-address to fetch a new address for every transaction. Pay to IP had issues and so it was largely replaced with addresses. Convenience and ignorance, distractions like vanity addresses caused people to begin constantly reusing addresses. Wallet software was release that made avoiding reuse hard or nearly impossible.  The vision of privacy through pseudonymous addresses has been broken, Bitcoin has lost its privacy. The result is that white/green/black/red/etc listing addresses is not technologically impossible in our ecosystem today.