I've heard a guy recently, he sounded as he knew what he was talking about. he said that Bitcoin was intentionally designed to be 100% transparent, so that the guys like this one above and the rest would accept it. This is the most convincing explanation I've heard so far about it. So from that point of view I would say, if that's true, that was a smart decision. However, at some point this will come back as an issue for sure.