Mixing funds through the traditional route is safer? Not really and is the reason theymos is likely against even a remote connection with them.
well I never said mixing funds through traditional route but laundering funds through traditional route.
I meant is safer in the sense that paper money is harder to track
Unlike digital that usually leaves some footprints of properly scrutinized.
Mixing and laundering funds "the traditional route" is the same thing. People who have paper cash want to clean it and make it useful by hiding the source, their ultimate goal is getting into a bank account which is digital. Swapping a paper note for another paper note doesn't achieve anything, it is not what 99% of people are looking for when laundering money outside of crypto. These are the semantic arguments that people use to defend mixers, going around in circles, but it's obvious to anyone what the majority of people are using them to do - usually hiding stolen funds.