I agree with you.

We likely have a limited budget of time, energy, psychology and financial value, and therefore, we have to choose how much to allocate (whether to bitcoin or to any other investment), including if we invest financially it is better to attempt to get to point that we are comfortable by what we know about our then situation and our future value expectations, and surely if we could predict the future, then the way that we allocate would likely change from knowing that fact, so we do the best that we can in terms of trying to figure out upside potential, downside risk and options that we believe that we have available.

I know that I am likely not really saying much because it can be a complicated process in terms of what anyone has going on in their lives at any given time, including if they are in a position in life in which they have any time, energy, finances and psychology that they can invest into any given investment, whether bitcoin or otherwise.

It seems to me that we are still early, so anyone who actually knows about bitcoin is way more advantaged than someone who does not in terms of figuring out an allocation and actually being able to get off of zero which tends to be one of the better of the first steps, and attempting to bring this somewhat back to the topic of this thread, there can quite a lot of confusion regarding various ways to hold bitcoin, and what kinds of risks could happen when involved in ways to attempt to preserve privacy - and then perhaps to end up with a kind of Chipmixer situation.. in which some value has been taken away, and in my more than 9 years in bitcoin, I have gone through quite a few of these kinds of incidents and either I lost coins or I had to move coins or I had to change some of my practices because of these kinds of events, including some kinds of confusion in terms of whether certain governments are finding which kinds of activities to be illegal?  to use them or to run them, and then what might be the thresholds in which any of our coins might be a target in which we are accused of doing something wrong merely because we are either using a service like this or maybe we are engaged in some related practice of moving our BTC around... and are we supposed to "declare" it? 

There are likely that there are reasons that there are ambiguities on both sides, but still sometimes any of us could end up losing out because we either become scared to use these kinds of services or we might even become scared of using bitcoin (or buying bitcoin).  Part of my own reasons to be on the forum is to attempt to learn about these various kinds of services, but I don't claim to have a lot of technical skills, so it seems that guys like me sometimes might even get scared about using these kinds of services because we might not feel comfortable enough to understand how much we are trusting in others and how much of the code is able to review, and we sometimes have to rely upon others who are offering these kinds of services.. and then even questioning how much they might be cooperating with authorities or other parties to share some of the data.. which then becomes a misrepresentation to users, and even if there might be some implications of illegality, several guys have already mentioned that the mere desire to try to stay private does not seem to be an illegal desire.