Yes, regulatory risk goes hand in hand with things that are harder for nation states to control and gives individuals more freedom (permissionless, private, anonymous, untraceable transaction are on the far end of that spectrum). You touch on this in your videos so I'm not sure why you're so incredulous about that when it comes to Monero.

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Other-Means-Principle

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Value-Proposition