I think those times are over, but temporarily. One day people will realise that privacy and anonymity are important, for example when they start receiving taxes or reports for all their transactions. Then the times of anonymous coins will come. But for now, yes, erc20 crap like shiba is in trend.
I already give all of my transactions and trades and movements to my government, with my information, and pay my taxes on that. I am not sure why that would be a bad thing at all.
I understand why people wouldn't want to pay taxes to their government, but without you paying your government, then the world would be in chaos and it would be naive to think that they use all of your tax money on you, of course they steal, they are politicians, that's their job but they also spend some on keeping the nation going, so even though we hate our governments, we still have to pay our taxes to keep the nation going, and if we don't and they bankrupt because of it, we will be the ones that bankrupting because of it, that's not a good alternative.
I always thought cryptocurrencies gave people freedom, at least financial independence. And you're voluntarily giving that information to the government. That's very strange to me. Personally, I don't want anyone else to know anything about my finances, at least in cryptocurrency. And I won't tell anyone about my transactions.