Closing down one of the biggest bitcoin mixer is never the solution because once this is done..this0l opens the doors for new competition and its not one mixer coming ,its several of them which will make the authorities job even more difficult if they try to close down the new businesses on the block... BTW how different are mixers from coins like monero, i really dont get the fuzz of closing down tumblers 
Any centralized service, whether mixing or not, is prone to this. Sure others will pop up, but there is no way to tell a priori whether they are legit, scams to steal coins or set up by the authorities themselves. A protocol level privacy layer is one long term solution. There are current solutions but none are as elegant as something at the protocol level.
No, I seriously doubt that ChipMixer were some kind of "Honey Trap" for the law enforcement authorities, but I know they do run Tor Exit nodes to gather information, so they do things like this.
ChipMixer painted a target on their own back, by being one of the largest coin mixers out there, so law enforcement zeroed in on them as a primary target.
Yeah, I didn't say ChipMixer was a honey trap, but that the ones that pop up to replace it could be.
