“Chazal also understood that performing mitzvos in public puts us in a sakonah.”
This was at the time where anti semitism was encouraged and instituted on a governmental level. Bh that doesn’t apply today. Also the main reason for the menorahs in town
squares didn’t apply then either as it was very rare for a yid not to be frum.
Would you also advocate for men not to wear yarmulkes in public and suffice with a nondescript cap? It is such thinking that emboldens anti semitism as it shows we expect not to be treated fairly and expect not to have religious freedom