And because of that, it's plain stupid for the Bitcoin ecosystem to voluntarily hand over that power to the government. Centralized exchanges, third party payment processors,
even mixers buy the notion of taint nowadays.
taint is a term even early adopter/dev bitcoiners use for the UTXO path back to its proven creation (coin-reward).. its a real thing.
its actually part of the audibility of bitcoin, that each bitcoin has a origin path
taint existed before any chain analysis company started operating
taint existed before any government cared about bitcoin