And that is probably what this actually is.  I would also add that privacy isn't important to the average person, at all and what I mean by that is joe blow on the street is paying for his garden tools with a debit card, which obviously has no privacy attached whatsoever.  Most people do not frequent the dark markets and most people aren't tax cheats.  They just don't care about their money being anonymous.

Now a lot of crypto enthusiasts do indeed care about anonymity, but bitcoin offers enough of it such that they are comfortable, and I do not think that any fork of bitcoin is going to catch on regardless of how much anonymity it promises.  You'll see I'm right with time, believe me.