Appreciate you taking the time to write out the steel man. Ascribing motive to others without an honest appraisal of the benefits of choices one might not like is lazy.

There can be good reasons for a bad thing, and it's important to factor them in when having a discussion.

The issue is that correctly implementing #2 means that your publishing can be censored at the rate at which you can buy discrete iPhones.

Anonymity isn’t anonymity if you can’t generate millions of them cheaply.