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Replacing TCP with something else isn't going to change anything to being tracked.
IP adresses aren't fixed (for most people), just disconnect your modem for a few hours and you'll probably get a new one.
You are being tracked by cookies, browser fingerprints, only being able to use a website after logging in, etc.
So this might solve some problems, it's not going to just give you privacy or make you untraceable.
Not so long ago a local news site was being DDOSed. The kid that did it thought he was so smart using a VPN. He bragged online how he could bring any website down (sending those messages from his VPN). Until he was dumb enough to keep his VPN open and open this news site in his browser, because he never logged out he was logged in automatically. So the website admin saw his (known) VPN IP and now knew his account. The account he used before from his actual IP.
The issue is not that it's static, the issue is that it is getting assigned by an authority. In the solution the random ID is generated on device
Although that is possible, my understanding is that the most significant information regarding one's location and identity, after an account, is the IP.
https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
Notice how the IP is not even on the list.
IPs change, maybe you're at home, maybe on mobile, maybe at the office, maybe at a friend's house. The aggregate fingerprint of the remaining parameters, is way better at uniquely identifying anyone, then linking any information that "anonymous unique identity" leaves behind to create a profile that over time becomes easier and easier to deanonymize.
The cookies and so on are the “account.” And the trackers are sophisticated enough that they can track you across multiple devices, meaning multiple IPs.
Does your imagined network protocol also not have MAC addresses? At some level a packet needs to know where it is going, or the receiver won’t get it.