I would imagine that it's, in part, because they want to allow anonymous communication for political dissidents and the like. It's hard to make an app that is r

I would imagine that it's, in part, because they want to allow anonymous communication for political dissidents and the like. It's hard to make an app that is resistant to nation state level spying. It's that much harder to implement an anonymous payment system on top of that. I know Bitcoin and the like exist, but you're vastly increasing the attack surface to identify someone.