The system was designed by people who value taxation as something important to a functioning state. You can call that a conspiracy, I would rather call it social market economy.

The tradeoffs of the design itself sacrifice payee safety and philosophically imply that the lives of its users are secondary to socially engineering goals which they dishonestly deny are incompatible with same.

https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks

That is objectively, justifiably classifiable as manipulative and destructive.

To clarify: I assert that taxation and a functioning state, and the safety and security of the users of an online currency are absolutely not incompatible with one another—and I'm not even implicitly asserting that the definition of a "functioning state" is some kind of weird ancap impossible libertarian ideal.