How about addressing the substance of my comments instead trying to dismiss them by way of association. I'm not trying to hide my affiliation with the Monero project (tacotime too above BTW), but it doesn't answer the question.

Smooth, I don't think you are going to give the idea of anonymous transactions ON THE CHAIN is something that people need to take a second look at.

I'm not sure I understood that. If you are asking whether it could be rethought, my answer would be absolutely.  

. .... and make baseless claims about "most respected and talented developers" without any kind of source for that statement, you are throwing FUD.

Good point there is no proof yet that it isn't possible.

Note I have not assessed that the cracking the private keys is possible. I just asked that we have to look for the literature on cracks where there are two simultaneous equations. I've seen nothing from smooth's mathematicians yet on this.

I have accessed that Sybil attacking the anonymity is likely amplified. And appears smooth is leaning that way too, but no final conclusion yet.

if there is a non-zero chance of a fatal exploit, then better to be safe than sorry and pursue it to the best of our abilities

there is no math proof that there is no vulnerability here and your assessment that it is possible is good enough for me to be concerned.

My opinion is that there is no way to "come to the conclusion" without actually doing the work to build out systems and see if they hold up. That is what we are doing.