It's coming, no matter if you want it or not, automation of everything just saves so much money with tax avoidance, making black markets way more harder etc... I am not sure what they mean by "abuse" but i guess it'ss just a point of perspective.
Government can launch whatever CBDC they want but they can't take the place of the decentralized crypto currency. Abuse means they are trying to cheat the people by saying CBDC is the actual crypto.
I honestly am wondering how illegal drug trade, money laundering and everything like that will work after it gets so much more harder. People say with bitcoin / monero etc, but how exactly when monero isn't liquid anymore and transactions and origin of the money is more and more under an automated microscope. I am guessing there are more ways being developed, and i am assuming they would first use identity theft.
Do you really believe that every trade if drugs, weapons, and so illicit activities are happening via cryptos? Definitely not, USD is the most used money for illegal activities and the comparable amount will exceeds at least 1000x than how much cryptos used for that purposes.
I don't know what you mean by "people" keeping us ignorant but open source definitely means a lot compared to total black box. Just the fact that anyone can audit the code makes it more secure and transparent. It doesn't however have anything to do with decentralization or cryptocurrencies with pseudonym accounts. Or at least i would be very surprised if any kind of anonymity / pseudonymity would be left except for some small grocery store shopping.
Government keeping us knowing about how monetary system works and decentralization is a wake up call but they are trying to bring in their cover up before it reaches more people.