Maybe backups would have been faster

from here and here

I've heard that one of the reasons victims pay is that it can be faster to pay the ransom and decrypt the data than to restore from backups, but if it can take hours for a bitcoin transaction to go through then maybe that argument isn't so clear-cut after all. 

Hi, my name is Unknown Subject, and I'm an alcoholic

found on Reddit

So it's not really anonymous, even if you are just giving your first name - or even if you're giving a false name, it's still technically pseudonymous. That being said, in practice anonymity doesn't have to be entirely binary - something can be relatively anonymous and still give you many of the benefits of anonymity. For example one might feel anonymous in a crowd, even if everyone in the crowd is known.