Yes, very true.

With the efforts I'm putting now in building my node, I just wonder if I should have done a better job at being anon from the beginning. Already using tor, but with social media presence, pretty easy to figure out who I am.

But I guess I could start a new completely anon node, open similar channels, and slowly transfer old sats to the new node, or even use taproot to start with new on-chain sats that cannot be linked to channel opening transactions like it was possible before. A node can become quite productive quite fast, looking at Kraken, Zero Fee Routing, etc who (re-)built a big node in no time, so I guess it's just a matter of doing it.