the word "anonymous" does not come with the stipulation that you must be a lowly crypto nerd without those resources, it means untraceable
No. Anonymous does not mean "untraceable".
It means that a blockchain address is not associated with a legal (individual or corporate) entity in the way a bank account is.
So called "backed" money requires to be obfuscated because it is only based on record keeping - usually that of the quantified level of debt or credit of the account holder who's identity is necessarily synonymous with the account.
Cryptocurrency, on the other hand, is not an electronic representation of bank accounts.
It is an uncounterfeitable token that is not "own-able" in any legally defined way because your name and address is not rubber stamped onto the blockchain. That is by definition anonymity and even when you buy 'crypto' on an exchange you don't own it in the way that you own your house. You simply happen to have control over a certain blockchain address, but not in any legal sense.
So there is no need to "hide" the blockchain to support anonymity. In fact blockchain transparency is essential for there to be money in the first place. What do people do when they think their wallet is lying to them ? They go to blockchain.info or some other public consensus block explorer to assure themselves that what they think they made happen on the blockchain - did happen.
You think they don't want to see the balance in the destination address accruing when they send a transactions ? You think they want to have to beg the receiver for a viewkey to assure them that they made a payment ? What do people do when they make an exchange deposit and their cash doesn't turn up in 10 minutes ? They go onto blockchain.info and check
A. the sending address
B. the receiving address
C. the number of confirmations.
I'm sorry, but if anyone thinks that users of crypto are going to accept anything less than utter transparency before they endow an unbacked monetary system with value then they are deluded to the point of disneyland.
What's great about Dash is this:
[1] - it doesn't compromise any of bitcoin's transparency - in fact it inherits it
[2] - it makes bitcoin perfectly fungible - directly, without recourse to obfuscation, loss of commercial compatability or transaction auditability. No other coin does that.
The implications of [2] are that electronic anonymity reverts to the level of true cash with all the associated implications for privacy and anonymity. One blockchain address is as visible, verifiable and accessible as the next, but simultaneously indistinguishable.
That is money. Not some trainspotter's cyphering system.