It's the war of government against the people, and all of the sudden developers are getting arrested, and everyone is breaking a law if they had any connection with Bitcoin.
With the way how they are going in future you will be able to use bitcoin only with custodial and government approved services

This is slowly happening in European Union, which i somewhat touched in this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5495068.0.
The point is, the governments don't even have to go after developers (although they might to set an example), all they need to do is to force centralised exchanges to block/freeze coins that comes from unidentified sources, and put on them the responsibility of investigating their customers.
That's why it's crucial to have at least one bitcoin-friendly country, in which you can safely exchange coins to fiat. Otherwise the whole concept of blockchain and decentralisation becomes obsolete. It could get replaced with a spreadsheet ran by authorised entities.