Bitcoins first major usecase was buying drugs anonymously on the darknet.

You sound like TradFi and corporate media in Bitcoins early years.

Darknets are highly adversarial environments. It's a crucible for your crypto.

Bitcoin is fundamentally a black market currency and it's whole value prop relies on that (white market transactions require permission, black markets txns don't)

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Permissionless-Principle