sometimes you wonder if people have become so thoroughly captured by the status quo they can no longer even conceive of a monetary system existing that is not entirely dependent on custodians acting on someone's behalf

it's not the developers of bitcoin's fault your entire reg compliance apparatus was constructed on requiring intermediaries

It's fundamentally unsurprising that the custodians of the existing system don't like a system built on the premise of circumventing it

In their defense, there might be some issues with circumventing such controls. Money laundring, fraud, market manipulation and sanction circumvention aren't always positive for society at large