Financial Privacy is essential not only to how Bitcoin was originally intended to remove the middleman, but really to our individual rights. Being fully private by default has also the affect of creating true fungibility and good financial system.
Regulation can be depressing, but we have been given a gift of a tool that is unstoppable, uncesensorable, and ungovernable. The crypto world has been so distracted with getting rich off crypto, that they may have lost vision of what is important.
I always say, decentralized, permissionless, Peer-to-peer, non-custodial, these are all tings that are not just catchy marketing words. They are essential to self sovereignty. To taking back control from regulators to the people of something that should be all our right. To transact freely.