It's not anonymous. All transactions are trivially followable, up to an anonymizer. But anonymizers have to eventually send the money to a destination, so the

It's not anonymous. All transactions are trivially followable, up to an anonymizer. But anonymizers have to eventually send the money to a destination, so their effect is pretty muted - just track the flow and user the resultant amounts to differentiate. I think people look at bitcoin and hear "crypto" and immediately think opaque and unbreakable. Neither are true, but first impressions matter a lot.