The NSA accepts reality, period. Most of what they do are mere symptoms of existing insecurity, and the really egregious stuff (eg global passive adversary) have more to do with imposing legacy ambient authority than not.

The topics of politically neutering well-funded governmental adversaries (that use gained data to drive "justice") and directly persecuting hacking are orthogonal. We currently have the worst of both worlds - unaccountable governments along with unlimited liability for running nmap or incrementing the number in a url.

In general, anonymity is directly opposed to accountability. Proper information security does not rely on after-the-fact accountability, so why should we think it prudent to give up anonymity?