The greatest hypocrisy of Zcash’s "optional transparency" is that it was never truly optional.
It's a fraud of choice.
You can hide in the shielded pool all you want until you actually want to exchange your money.
Then the mask must come off.
An unprincipled surrender to the status quo by so-called cypherpunks who, rather than aiming for system exit, bend and conform, and do so for the benefit of convenience and wealth.