The one category of entities who would desperately pay any price to have Wasabi on to their hands is the one we hate the most. Blockchain Analysis companies. They are in a collaboration already so one foot is in their boat already anyway.
And it's a great acquisition for a blockchain analysis company. Simultaneously remove a large cost of running Wasabi since they can obviously supply their mass surveillance tools to themselves for free, while also gaining more information about every output which is even attempted to be coinjoined through Wasabi (even if they ultimately censor it), giving them more information to further their blockchain analysis capabilities. Plus it further opens up the possibility of self Sybil attacks to further deanonymize Wasabi users.
It will taint their names too late however, because the big damage will already be done.
The writing has been on the wall for Wasabi since they day they announced they will start cooperating with and directly funding blockchain analysis. Anyone who has chosen to support them from that day onward has no excuse.
Think about it. You are being told it is fine to work with Blockchain Analysis as long as Privacy is still the number one priority. It is a very contradictory and creepy way of deceiving users into believing it is completely fine for our Privacy to collaborate with the enemies of Privacy.
I've been poking around the Dread forum after seeing the links shared by OP; the distrust of Wasabi there is pretty widespread (for good reason), and I would think people regularly using Tor and Darknet Markets know a thing or two about privacy. The most privacy orientated people on this forum do not recommend Wasabi. The most privacy orientated people on Twitter do not recommend Wasabi. It would seem the people who do recommend Wasabi largely either work for Wasabi or are being paid by Wasabi. It's pretty telling.