A permissionless, private, peer-to-peer payment protocol is a waste of time?

Monero is unequivocally a more powerful tool for digital sovereignty and dominates Bitcoin in the actual P2P payment use case.

Bitcoin has played an important role in normalizing adoption, as It's not as threatening to the enemies of freedom.

It's ultimately a matter of priorities: cypherpunk values vs. greed - Satoshi vs. Larry Fink.