I remember that discussion, but I can't find it from satoshi's posts. Do you have the thread link?
Here is the link for post by Satoshi:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770.msg9074#msg9074
To put it another way, who are we to change the way this thing works 11 years now?
We the people are real users of this thing called Bitcoin, and this thing code changes all the time if you didn't notice so far.If that was a poll thread, it's a no from me. I'm in favor of using other cryptocurrencies whose purpose was privacy-oriented from the beginning.
Saying no to privacy for Bitcoin, while supporting other privacy oriented altcoins... 