"secret debasement"? You have to use math more complex than arithmetic to prove no new coins in non-coinbase txns... but you can still prove, there are no new coins in non-coinbase txn
See the bitcoin bug of 2010...similar can happen with monero any minute, the difference is that there is a high chance that the pleb wouldn't notice before its too late.
Both is what happened, actually. On the crypto-anarchy side, we have Tor, GPG, Tails/Whonix/Qubes, Monero, Scuttlebutt (and I would argue Pine). On the crypto-statism side, we have NSA