The direction we are heading is the direction of full adoption, it's hightime we realized that Bitcoin can't really gain full adoption without sacrificing something, in place, there is this very common proverbs which if translated to English simply means that there is always something that must be cut off from a minute before it becomes consumable, some might say eatable.

I have said this over time that Bitcoin can't gain full adoption without the government stepping in to accept and adopt it first, and this has began to happen in our very eyes.

To me though, I do not believe that by the government coming in to bitcoin totally kills privacy, no, no, I still believe it's a choice we can make for ourselves respectively speaking, the government may want control but we have to be rest assured that the Bitcoin network can't be manipulated by any Dev, except the government decide to create their own crypto asset.