[gubatron]

You put forth very good examples of legal transactions that most people would prefer remain private.

I think the DETAILS of all your transaction history have to be private.

I also think privacy is not a synonym for anonymity.

As long as the record of transactions remains secure and private, I can still be me and transact, and use my identity to my advantage in terms of creating trust.

I'd add to your sentence: "People need privacy and trust in trade to be free."

"Only a sense of honor can lead to commerce. Any commerce." -Taleb

It's easy to see that those with non-anonymous identities will be able to build trust way faster than those with anonymous-identities.

Anonymity can only protect you from being related to parties that would tarnish your reputation or put you in a undesirable, perhaps even dangerous situation.

I think in the scale of possibilities we're trying to create, privacy and identity will be more valuable for the majority of trade on the network, anonymity will serve a very small percentage which I know is going to be taken care of to some extent by developers such as yourself, however, I think we can't ever promise anonymity as a feature, unless there's integration with a cryptocurrency that can somehow promise this, along with other layers of anonymity protection.