I agree you shouldn't move in and out of Monero via BTC but mostly because of the privacy failings of Bitcoin. If you convert BTC to XMR it should be with the intention of keeping it as XMR and spending it, taking advantage of the improved spending privacy that XMR affords.

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Yes... which means you still have an on chain tx for the swap from to. Which means when you spend it on some drugs for a certain price, there is a on chain tx that closely matches the same value amount you spent on the drugs. Now you can say no one knows how much I spent on the drugs but if the fed is watching they will know how much you bought and it's rough estimate of how much its worth. Then they can see on chain tx in bitcoin for close to that amount and start monitoring you. BTC doesn't have a privacy failure. People do.

while this is pedantically correct,

it's foolish to believe that UX is irrelevant.

Bitcoin privacy UX is terrible.

Across the board, self custodial LN sucks, all the CJ options since Whirlpool are dodgy and difficult to establish privacy guarantees, buying with KYC is overtly encouraged for convenience etc...

so yeah sure

if you decide to be hard core,

label all your utxos

only buy non-KYC

keep your stacks separate

and never ever consolidate

sure.

OR

just use Moneroâ„¢

and you don't have to worry about anything *except* for edge cases that are only relevant if you are under targeted surveillance

and if you move into XMR and hold it there for some time, you're going to lose purchasing power.

Agreed. So you would just have a spending stack. To use an old banking analogy; BTC as your interest earning time deposit account and XMR as your 0% interest current account.

ive been holding XMR since $60

still waiting for the "lose purchasing power"