Why not today’s Bitcoin? Because the digital currency of the future must choose between two mutually exclusive paths. It can either be anonymous, enabling black market transactions in the shadow economy, or it can be fully compliant with the growing body of know your customer, anti-money laundering laws that constrain global financial markets. A single digital currency cannot do both.
Because transferring cash between 2 persons is not an anonymous transaction.
Fungibility is a fundamental property of any currency. All satoshis are created to equal. I think that customer's identity issue has to be dealt with at the payment level, a layer above btc core functionality. if you a few time to spare just listen to
Adam Back interviewed by Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Among other things they they spoke about fungibility and other related topics.