Zooko, this just isn’t a good faith argument any more. Almost no one here is suggesting taddrs harm the shielded pool. All bringing this up does is distract from a conversation about getting rid of Taddrs.
I don’t think taddrs being around cause issues for zaddr privacy. But they are an idealogical issue for the chain and a real accessibility issue. Users don’t get a choice to use zaddrs when everyone does the lowest common denominator support for Zcash.
You can argue removing them isn’t that important (which seems to be @holmesworcester argument), I think i disagree and said so down that thread, but it warrants more discussion. But you should then acknowledge that ideally, we’d have them gone in a perfect world. But you can’t or won’t do that.
As I said in the other thread:
And @anon16456014 said even better up thread here