Privacy of some sort on the protocol level will be very difficult and will take a lot of time(assuming it would actually occur someday). Also, I'm pretty sure privacy is frequently being talked about even before this incident you're referring to. Safe to assume that adding privacy(regardless if on other layers or on the main layer) is simply just not that simple to be implemented in a few years.
That's true! If anyone's interested to jump into
'L1 privacy for Bitcoin', here's
the thread for it.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5410526.0I do think it would be great to have better on-chain privacy, and there is some great tech that is being developed and experimented with in a few altcoins that are also mentioned over there.