How can you bring up liquid confidential transactions without even mentioning it is custodial? CT is only one of several things that makes Monero great for privacy and anonymity that is impossible for Bitcoin to achieve without major changes to the base layer. Coinjoins, while great, are not on the same level of ease and effectiveness as Monero.

Bitcoin anonset is not all of bitcoin. It is only as large as those who keep to best privacy practices. A tiny fraction of bitcoiners more comparable to monero anonset.

Tradeoffs only exist on everything else apparently.