I say that identifying the destination of your own coins counts as tracing. You may think it doesn't, that's fine. But focusing on whether it technically counts as tracing or not is missing the point, which is: it is bad for receiver privacy for the sender to learn that info. Monero gives that info to the sender for free. Lightning doesn't. That's a point in LN's favor.
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then I suggest you frame the problem in those terms since they actually communicate what the real risk is to the reader.
calling it something that it isn't communicates something different.
of course I understand that saying
"its bad for receiver privacy that the sender knows the destination of their payment" isnt as fun as saying "its bad monero is traceable"
but those two statements are not equivalent.