And yes, please developers should remain anonymous. Because they are easy targets for the security agencies, the Feds, the good, the bad and the ugly in the world. Besides, I have never seen a developer who doesn't hold their privacy and security in high esteem. One more thing for developers is to obey the laws and regulations binding cryptocurrency in any country so as to avoid legal and regulatory problems..
Regardless the fact what you say is true, but it is also impossible, at least the part of chasing criminals instead of chasing devs. Some of the biggest criminals are politicians, gnterprise groups CEOs, friends, family, etc. And these people are the ones making the rules and avoiding them when they don't serve them.
I agree that if I was a dev, I wanted to be anonymous, only know by aliases. But this is also very difficult, because you don't think of this at born time (so to speak), therefore, early in life you start handing out info about you everywhere by means of when your parents give you a smarphone, a console, a laptop, etc. And when the time comes, you realise that you need to be annonymous but it's late because your info is already everywhere.
Removing all your traces from the internet is quite difficult because many times, it forces you to change many aspects of life.
This is actually true, if they would attack the developers then much better they'll target the criminals that are surfing in the blockchain technology and crypto. As devs want to gain the trust of people they are putting their identity on public. Which is not actually good for them, it would be better red tagged criminal activities that are harmful for the community. But of course revealing those identity could led to even more worse scenarios. Such as hacking their IP address, threat and more worse crime. Which could be hard for them to escape those scenarios since people would always do something in the internet.
Not all good developers are good actors, it's another angle of this argument and I've gone through most responses and found that everyone thinks positive of every dev. Some of them develop the scam altcoins or project using the blockchain, which has lured investors to lose funds. Consequently, the good players also need to stay careful, because the security agencies think in weird ways once they're ordered to carry out a search spree on blockchain developers, out of what a bad player has committed using the network, maybe. So, I think that should be the foundation of this conversation, and only a few developer would go scot free since these law enforcement agencies employ literally top technicians from every department in the world to join their security agencies, it'll be easier to track down them developers. It takes a hacker to get a hacker. Except those who has stopped online activities, every developer who works online stand a risk of being caught, as I've realized recently, after the chipmixer scandal, that the FBI are well prepared tech wise, yet I believe some people, the few, can beat the system and still remain anonymous.