It's the same with banks and also CBDCs. Until it doesn't go down like 2008 and blow up in their faces, they won't realize what they don't already have.
By which point it will be too late to change anything. We will never be able to go back to before mass surveillance. Once CBDCs are launched, we will never be able to go back to before they existed. And once the government have control of the bitcoin network and can censor at will, we will never be able to go back to it being free. Which is why we need to be discussing solutions now.
It is relatively easy to stay anonymous while working with crypto alone without converting to/from fiat. The governments will probably require everyone to register their self-hosted wallets, but they cannot really enforce it, at least not at the moment.
However the weak point of crypto is conversion from/to cash/CBDC. The governments know that and they are heavily regulating that conversion, essentially enforcing KYC on any such operation.
So as long as we find a way to convert crypto to/from fiat without going through KYC, then we should be fine.