It certainly seems like its better than an atomic swap on bitcoin to monero, because in those you need someone on the other side and you have an anonymity set of few people. Falling asleep trying to get through guys take, I did find a few things wrong with his analysis already though, I'll have to try again tomorrow. I can understand the idea of wanting a way to test new features in a way that has real economic impact without risking the network, I still think that's what litecoin is for, but maybe there's a point between *this is highly experimental* and *we are ready to merge this with core*, maybe a *this has covenants enabled and people are using it for some advanced custody stuff that most people aren't ready for* or something, and litecoin just doesn't fit the bill.