You don't take advantage of "amounts in the clear" to verify the billion+ txns anyway. No Bitcoiner does. You just run a node and pay no mind like any Monero user would.

I fail to see your advantage if you never do it in practice.

"Can, but doesn't" is essentially the same thing as "Can't"

It's larping 

 Not sure where you're getting this stuff but no, what you're saying is not correct.