I'm still not seeing it. What are some specific benefits for hiding the benefitting owner of a company? How would society be worse off if the person or people behind a company could always be known?
If you recently won the lottery. You might fear for your safety should your name and address become public knowledge.
Some states allow you to claim anonymously, while others don't. For those that don't, you may be able to claim under an LLC, with your name and address "hidden".
USA is pretty unique in its inability to separate identity of a person from their address. There's no reason for that to be so, it's just a path dependency you maneuvered yourselves into.
