I'm convinced of two things:

1) Crypto's original sin was not incorporating privacy into its foundation.

2) They'd never have let us get this far if we did.

I don't think it really would have been possible. Considering Zero Knowledge gadgets didn't really exist in production until what? 2021, it would have been way harder to implement programmable cryptography at scale any earlier than today. The math just wasn't there.

Possibly. But everything has trade offs. 

Remember one of the premises is all this is an effort to have transparency and an open worldwide public ledger. 

Perfect world:

Banks, Institutions and Governments should have public transparency.

Citizens should have privacy.

yeah the lack of privacy has really stopped me from using my ENS in a meaningful way... may just get another one that I don't link to my main accounts to play around with