The thing that people always overlook in the debate about whether anonymity should be banned is that from a site administrator perspective, you're not talking about a real name policy. You are actually talking about a technical means of identity verification and validation. To eliminate the fraction of anonymous abuse, you would be requiring all users to prove who they are, and to make the site administrators responsible for implementing those systems.

In my work, I'm currently heavily involved in rebutting the UK's quite awful plan to "make the internet a safe place for children" by requiring all internet usage to be age-gated. This means that all users, no matter who they are, and no matter what content they would be looking at (even WP blogs), would be required to prove their age through age verification data, such as a passport or a credit card. This would be done on a site-by-site basis, not at the ISP or browser level. It would be entirely the responsibility of site owners to implement these systems on their own time and money, which (as the draft plan was written) would effectively make site administrators the holders of outsourced databases of all the internet usage of the entire UK population linked to specific individuals, in addition to their credit card details or passport. How would you like that info sitting on your WP database?

For what it's worth, the only companies which have these mechanisms in place ready to deploy are in the adult web industry, and it goes without saying a lot of community members wouldn't feel very comfortable outsourcing their site visitors' identities and internet usage to them. There has always been the option to perhaps use a comment account linked to a social media handle, but then you are (to use the most obvious example) handing control over your visitors' data as well as their opinions to Facebook, which is how the open web dies by a thousand comments.

And you know what I'm going to say here: the engagement I'm doing on this draft plan is on behalf of the companies that want to stop this "but the children!" backdoor to privatised surveillance and care enough to show up to the fight. WP and open source projects which are going to be hit hard by it - it's us who are going to be expected to code these systems for free, folks - are completely absent from the dialogue.

When you talk about ending anonymity, you need to think about what you are asking for technically. Because it's going to be your responsibility to set it up and hold that data.