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> Many, including Satoshi, believed cryptocurrencies provided privacy for payments.

(emphasis mine)

Satoshi's writings indicated that he understood the public ledger he was creating was not anonymous. He even talked about ring signatures as a possible method to add obfuscation.

(Ring signatures is one aspect combined with others that Monero uses to achieve financial privacy. Anonymity requires extra steps taken by the user. Financial privacy ≠ anonymity.)

You don't, as a best practice, repeatedly send payments to or from the same address in Bitcoin. So if you continue not doing so in Monero, you end up with much more anonymity.

I'm sorry if I made it sound like Monero is perfect, because it isn't. There are weaknesses to the protocol.

But then again nothing is perfect, neither is Tor.