Na I rather you guys bring up all this to hash it out and we can think about it. You're right to err on the side of caution. There can definitely be problems with identifying the true spender in ring signatures if tx info is made public, but that is separate from stealth addresses. There is supposed to be a new bounty for hiding this info from relays.

Simply put stealth addresses make it so the public address you see (i.e. the XMR address on my profile) is not visible on-chain (it's encrypted).

Try searching my address on any Monero blockchain explorer. You won't find it:

89spcfRbp8EZZF2Qf9qJNSBjbx7fJAdJcEf64GBP1Vgg8yNrKHVLtJXLt4jWr3hcYeYUePpKfg5MkNYsjNc9sx3m3ymcMt4