Hoping is insufficient. Governments around the world will continue to push ahead with more and more invasive control if we don't stop them. I've said for a long time we need more on-chain privacy as a default, but no one cares about privacy anymore. They only care about making more fiat profit. And so bitcoin is headed for government control, and the masses will be happy because they made a few bucks along the way.
The problem is that although we may be more privacy conscious in this forum, people who are starting to invest in bitcoin are mostly doing so because of the possibility of a big profit in fiat. Then maybe when they invest some people start to inform themselves and may change, which implies a long way: if they have bought bitcoin in a CEX they should return it to the CEX (assuming it is in their custody), sell it, pay the corresponding taxes and from there if they get bitcoin with DEX or in other ways with privacy they hope that a long time passes without anyone thinking of investigating them because they once bought and sold it in a CEX.
It is easier to fuck up privacy than the other way around.