you do not get real privacy with all of those tools
but you pay a lot of fees and commissions for using it
and you risk of ending up with 'tainted' bitcoin with could be rejected by certain retailers
Discussion
Unfortunately you're right 😪 ...and you have to be super-careful with your utxo management.
Tainted Bitcoin is FUD. You can always do some transactions with yourself on-chain, over lightning, etc to make the sats appear just like any other sats.
Better to hide among the many people who use Bitcoin than be one of the few Monerans that have limited on/off ramps and very small anonymity sets
I agree. Open a channel to someone. Rebalance the funds to push all the liquidity to their side. Close channel. It’s their UTXO now