If ChipMixer is indeed a honeypot, then the data they gather wouldn't be used to catch small or even medium-sized criminals. It's about getting a few big fish - the robberies that are in the hundreds of millions.
Well if any of that were true then the billion-dollar megascammer Sam Bankman-Fried would be in jail by now.
The fact that Coinbase/Binance CEOs and Elon Musk are wondering our loud why he's not locked up tells us something; that if Chipmixer were a honeypot as you say it is, the feds would already have a paper trail of some "backed" FTX funds to present as court evidence.