Libra is going to be fighting a regulatory hornets nest.
And executives dont like going to jail.
I dont really see how they are going to get off the ground with a useable product.
They have one thing other cryptos don't have - (virtually) unlimited funding

It doesnt matter. You cant just tell the US government you are going to break every law in the book and expect them to roll over. Not unless you control the government. And I know the conspiratards like to claim differently, but the US government in the broad sense (State and Federal) is sufficiently decentralized that it is not really capable of being controlled by any specific individual or group of individuals in its current form