I'm saying people exceptionally concerned about blockchain privacy should consider using Monero, or at least passing their BTC funds through it to break blockchain links instead of mixers.
Depends on how much money they're willing to lose, and what kind of privacy they're looking for. XMR <-> BTC conversion is more expensive (without counting the possible changes in the exchange rate). If you want to just hide yourself from a bunch of forum users who'll have a good time on looking up on your footprints, then a mixer is a enough. If you're going to launder a billion dollars, then the required trust raises some serious concern.
This has nothing to do with it. First of all, they never identified the owner of Blender.io.
So, did they just shut down the site? They didn't arrest the owner, did they?
Furthermore, the creator of Tornado Cash didn't necessarily think or know he was doing anything illegal when he created it. He shouldn't be in jail IMO.
Of course he shouldn't (for making Tornado Cash). The fact that we have a gazillion of crazy laws should further highlight the importance of Internet privacy, though.