The Travel Rule forces firms to collect, hold and transmit personal data about the people behind transactions. This creates databases that link identity, transaction history and asset ownership, turning ordinary users into targets for hacks and physical attacks. I wrote about the EU rollout in Forbes last year and how these rules threaten user security by forcing more personal financial data to be collected, stored and shared.

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They do not exist to support financial inclusion or to protect individuals from fraud or scams. Their entire purpose is to keep the legacy system of gatekeepers intact. To do so, they essentially create busy work for themselves, writing rules that help governments further control their populations with threads of prosecution or confiscation, treating every citizen as a potential criminal, and wasting far more in compliance and enforcement than they could ever hope to recover.
And I thought the Bitcoin revolution was NOT about financial third parties/custodians/CEX holding, trading and sending on your behalf - according to the whitepaper. Why are you complaining? You use it in non intended ways.