I don't think any new onion routing network bolted on to the Bitcoin network will be able to be more reliable than Tor or I2P with decades of research and development. Not to mention that Tor and I2P exist today and dandelion is vaporware that will never realistically be built.
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I don't think it makes sense to compare the two. Tor and Dandelion serve completely different purposes. Let's agree to disagree.