Is anyone really surprised at the answers? They did what they did and now are forced to defend their actions.

We can spend hours picking apart what was said but in my view it comes down to "This is what we are doing, if you don't like it le me show you the door [points] there is the door"

There have been and still are other ways of hiding where your inputs came from. There have been and still are other ways of mixing / coinjoining your coins. Wasabi, for the moment is still looking like one of the larger ones. BUT, as more people move away from them and recommend others they will shrink.

It's just me, but when I saw the news about this originally I only gave a shrug since I figured this or something similar would happen sooner or later anyway.
Now, I am just waiting for someone to launch their own larger coordinator OR another way of doing things.

For those people who ONLY relied on them for their service and had no other plan, then now is the time to start thinking about it.

As for going through all the Q&A I only have 2 comments

The 1st is question 4 about institutional investors. How about large investors. It's a bit of semantics / wordplay but if they are just getting funds and have people using their services that are not 'institutions' but rather people with a lot of BTC and or fiat it's a true answer that it's not about institutional investors but rather bitcoiners. Just a bunch of really really rich ones.

The 2nd comment is just about 22 with the 'you should also open all your Lightning channels with coinjoined coins' is complete crap. But that's just my opinion. If you are really running your own lightning node then you probably know better ways that are more technical to hide things.

-Dave