More of it switches to Monero despite being less convenient, debilitating tracing capabilities.

It accelerated need for completion of Monero multisignature capabilities, allowing the custody of funds to remain with the buyer and seller, instead of requiring the exchange as an escrow provider which is where many of the funds are seized when the government finds a server and takes it down.

Buyers and sellers do their own encryption handshakes based on certain software protocols. Instead of all messages stored on the marketplace server. And they avoid certain apps like Wickr.

The effort to take down a marketplace increases while the yield decreases. Classic war of attrition.

Everyone already knows the best practices, they are just too lazy to implement them until there is evidence that it’s necessary and not just paranoia.