It's also publicly available information that tor doesn't even attempt to protect against deanonymization (e.g. timing) attacks from nation-state adversaries that control entry and exit nodes. It's not exactly well advertised though.

It's not like it would be impossible to put in protections either - it could be done at the expense of latency and bandwidth.

The idea that it is being run as a honeypot is not exactly far fetched given the security model and funding sources.