I will admit though, that you can't go backwards and un-leak your identity and so you should protect it now, when it's not something that is a threat to you.

It's just alot of work and the threats are so very fuzzy and hypothetical.

Use all the tools you can to protect your privacy, but really, that goes for everything. Use every tool you can to protect yourself from an uncertain future. Guns, Farms, Solar/Off-grid, non-kYC Bitcoin, Bitcoin in general, encrypt everything.