Reed on Nostr: I don't think that's really what silent payments are used for though. It's not an on ...

I don't think that's really what silent payments are used for though. It's not an on chain privacy thing. It's a way to have a static address without having address reuse. That's all I see it being used for in practice. And that's for all the reasons you state; it's not a privacy tool IMHO.