[orbital-decay]

Common sense is not the same as actual understanding. Tor is not limited to exit nodes, the most valuable thing is the onion network with millions of users. Both are being actively monitored for anomalies by the devs, with multiple thwarted attempts to subvert it in the past.

> TOR is not a good option for privacy. Currently only valid option for privacy is external Wi-Fi jacking and ensuring you don't send any private info like CPUID.

What is known for sure is that high profile drug dealers are using it without being caught for years. All known cases are related to either poor OPSEC, client/server 0-days, classic real-life investigations, or known attacks Tor can't protect from (correlation of the large amounts of onion server traffic, for example, which is not that easy as you make it sound). It is entirely possible that somebody was caught using unknown or unavoidable attacks, but no such case is known for sure at this time.

> Mixer networks + network jitter is necessary to protect privacy at this stage, yet no such project exists yet.

Tor does use packet shuffling and delays to protect from timing attacks to an extent. It's less advanced than I2P which also mixes the traffic, but has a much larger client pool and a unified browser used by nearly everyone, which provides users with huge buckets to blend into. There are also several delayed onion message services available.

Of course it is susceptible to certain kinds of attacks you have to be aware about. This isn't the same as "Tor doesn't provide anonymity" or "Tor is compromised".