Chain analysis companies are getting funded with millions of dollars from the US government, so it isn't just Wasabi's and centralized exchanges' fault here. But, sure, if half of the Bitcoin userbase stopped using Binance and switched to self-custody, they'd start panicking.
Sure. There will always be a government owned blockchain analysis company trying to spy on you. But if you cut off a huge amount of the data they get fed from the likes of centralized exchanges providing your KYC data and wallet addresses, payment processors like BitPay sharing details of your spending habits, closed source wallets which depend on their own servers sharing your wallet addresses, and so on, their bullshit "analyses" would be even more provably bullshit.
If some random account showed up to this forum and said "Hey, I've figured out a way to track bitcoin transactions, send me any address and 100,000 sats and I'll tell you who owns it!" while refusing to provide any technical details or let anyone see their code, they would rightly be called a scammer and rapidly be tagged with a newbie warning flag. But somehow if you show up to the US government and say the same thing they give you a multi-million dollar contract.
