I think you're both confusing privacy with anonymity. Bitcoin was never anonymous and it cannot stop the government from snooping on you through centralized means. (Although you could maintain anonymity as well as privacy, if you really wanted to.)
There are way more similarities than differences between those two words; only that the latter would mean - being given permission based on user's discretion - Big question is, do the government seek a user's attention to
snoop into their TRN history? Secondly, do you not know that the blockchain is served as a
public ledger? Which means, in most cases, without mixers or any other interference, there's absolutely no guarantee for privacy?
The sentence on quote from my post (which isn't part of this particular point) has a correlation with these; without a robust procurement for "anonymity/privacy", Bitcoin isn't entirely "fungible"!