If mixing becomes illegal it's going to make privacy options disappear. Mixers get used every day because ppl want to keep somethings private but it doesn't mean they're trying to hide illegal trades from govts. I've replied today to a post about Monero being dropped from centralised exchanges. If this's how it's going ppl won't have privacy.
Let us just hope that those who are making rules and regulations understand our way of defining what is illegal and what legal.
Even the Netherlands authorities that coordinated with other agencies to take down Sinbad stated that "
using a mixer isn't necessarily illegal." Of course it isn't. If mixing becomes illegal, then all services offering ways to hide the history of your coins become illegal, whether they have partners in blockchain analysis companies or not. Wanting privacy is a basic human right that doesn't make you a criminal. But if you already are a criminal, you remain one with or without mixers.