Based on the answers below I think yes you are perfectly right: we will be forced with the absolutely worst solution ever because apparently no smart engineer w

Based on the answers below I think yes you are perfectly right: we will be forced with the absolutely worst solution ever because apparently no smart engineer will want to invest into anything less that the perfect anonymization solution. So the leadership will say "ok fine then ID it is" and that's that. Thanks to everybody for their moral high ground, it always helped.