Anonymity has costs, so if your preferred version of privacy is "no one can tie...
Anonymity has costs, so if your preferred version of privacy is "no one can tie me to my real world persona" then you have a much, much, much harder job of creating a system of trust that doesn't appeal to real world institutions. For example, I want to maintain my privacy and participate in OSS financial software. It should be much, much harder for me to convince people to become a core contributor.
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Paraphrasing my boss when I found a security problem in our code, he said security is being able to send the person recording fraudulent transactions to jail.
And xz can't do that because they relied on a 100% privacy model of reputation. They can only block, nothing with real world consequences.