I wish that those fringe markets were adopting it later.
This network is bigger than that, and by being first associated with black markets may limit it’s perception on its capabilities.
There are big advantages for corporations and small business owners, and tackling these problems first would generate a good feedback for the general public to use it.
It is like a ceramic knife being promoted for cooking, and then getting some edge cases of misuse in crimes; compared to a knife mainly promoted for killing and bypassing metal detectors.
It is the same tool, and the way you frame it will affect how it is perceived the first time.
Of course it is inevitable the eventual illegal usage of it, but there are plenty of legally profitable applications for the enterprises, and we should be focusing to target those needs before the dark markets start to pop up.
You don’t want the first direct association to be “ah, the SafeNetwork? The super deep web?”, if that is the first thing that comes to the mind definitely no business will want to experiment with it.