Yes because solving all those problems on the base layer isnt practical without sacrificing scalability and security. There is improvements to bitcoins privacy slowly being build and the reality is that its easier to improve on that then trying to fix a chain’s scalability centralization problem after adoption
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That being said. Monero is awesome, and it does privacy better. But it’s sacrificing everything else on the base layer to do it. Those weaknesses stay unseen because of lack of adoption