The easy answer is: Government would not tolerate it. Precisely why we should all wait and see what the particular privacy features the devs have mentioned they are working on. So far DEVs of this coin have done a terrific job guys, just take a look at some other coins and what goes on in their threads - complete mess. We are focused group here, let's keep this a positive community and calculated steps. ZeroCash is a big step plus even bigger risk because it may isolate us completely. Is this a completely must-have right now? No, it is not. Our goal is mass adoption and to do what Bitcoin did but in quarter of the time. In business, you must know how to manage and navigate risk. At the present time this isn't risk worth taking because it will lead us in wrong direction. Additionally, I think the devs got some cool tricks up their sleeves with security features they said they are already working on that will surely be innovative. Let's let them do what they do best

And we keep spreading good word around community about Vertcoin and keep pushing it forward!
This is the same line of reasoning used by the bitcoin devs. As a result bitcoin is missing the important privacy layer (and the internet also fell into the same mistake). Mass adoption of cryptos is an eventuality not a maybe. From that perspective, it would be better to build the ideal coin rather than a conforming coin. Sure, I understand that another coin could do this anonymity thing rather than vertcoin but i think it would be a mistake when we take a look back five years from now and wonder whatever happened to that green coin with a funny French name.