The mathematics/cryptography behind monero is way over the top which is even more reason for me to stay away from it. Not all mathematics has to leave the blackboard.

The Venn diagram of post-doc mathematicians and privacy advocates also leads me to believe that theres really not many users who actually know what's going on. Bitcoin on the other hand, I truly think almost anyone can understand.

Piling on top of that, monero as it stands today is smaller in BTC terms than its cryptonote predecessors (i.e. it wasn't unheard of for those tokens to fetch many million of sats each) and hasn't offered much other than ever growing excuses to hardfork. As it stands, it appears to be designed to hardfork in perpetuity, relying on pinky promises masquerading as math

I've done plenty of reading over the years, perhaps the conclusion is that everyone wants to be..... thankful for today 😉