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by 47282847 385 days ago
Tor is anonymizing you primarily from the network. There are many use cases where you do want to be authenticated/known to whoever you are talking to. You just want observers to not know.

In your example of correlation of connection times, it may not be your goal to remain anonymous from the network and its participants, you may be interested in the location-hiding properties, and/or adversarial networks (like local government or corporate networks) and firewalls.