Cryptoeconomic "ring signatures"

These scenarios seem just as plausible without lookbehind privacy, the attackers can always censor the block that was created if they don’t like the contents of the block, the only distinction with lookbehind privacy is that the attackers cannot censor the block just according to the identity of the proposer who created the block. If Alice and Bob are proposers who would create the same block, then the contents of the block are likely to be much more relevant for censorship attacks (rather than the identities Alice/Bob). Also, with lookbehind privacy in place, maybe the attackers have nothing against the validator identity but don’t like the account that submitted the ephemeral key E so they’d censor the block that E created (as you say imagination is the limit). If you think that cartel censorship is a significant concern then there are more important design choices, namely not relying on a mostly static set of validators who’d create blocks in the next epochs.