Yes, you have identified precisely why I use the term tracing : so that people unfamiliar with the nuances will learn that monero is tracable by design. The designers wanted the sender to be able to follow his payment all the way to its destination, so they gave him a view key for his transactions. This design flaw is completely unnecessary and harms privacy by making the first step of a trace easy: send someone coins, or find someone who already sent coins to them, and bam, you have cryptographic proof of the possession of those coins by a particularpubkey, and can watch the blockchain to see where that pubkey shows up next. That is traceability. Built into monero by design.