Why do you (not necessarily you) ignore the benefits of Monero?
Is it pride? Your ego? Stubbornness? We have self proclaimed "maxis" that don't identify as cypherpunks. What the hell are those guys even doing on the Nostr and Bitcoiner/Monero??
Discussion
Use it, I have no problem, everyone is free.
I do not use it because it seems to me a bad store of value and bitcoin as my methods also gives me privacy, on the other hand monero is not accepted anywhere, Lightning in thousands of stores.
#monero is basically a stablecoin at this point.
You can *use* it as it's intended: anonymous digital cash.
Personally I never have much more than 3-5k USD worth of it lying around, because BTC tends to have dramatically better gains.
But when it comes time to spend, Monero is a true contender.
For spending purposes, between Monero and Lightning, I feel pretty free.
No wonder the boomer suits are trying to target them both. Anything that doesn't give them full retroactive visibility, they'll try to stamp out.
Fuck them. Resist!
Add that I see monero more as a privacy utility than as money, when atomic swaps between Bitcoin and Monero are implemented if the fees are acceptable it is possible that I will use it, although it will always depend on whether the receiver wants monero.