Monero is scarce. It has less supply than Bitcoin. It's inflation of 0.8% per year is comparable to Bitcoin, which is already half of gold, THE store of value for millenia.

Thanks to the delisting of Monero in all CEX their is basically close to 100% self-custody which means fractional reserving (virtualky multiplyimg supply withan real effect on prixe) is not possible anymore.

Besides that non-fungible and non-private coins like Bitcoin are super easy to track, tax and extort.

I bet in the future more Bitcoiners would have wished to compromise on a little more inflation over having a totally transparent (to the whole world including AI government) store of their wealth.

We are talking about miniscule inflation in the area of 0.0 to 0.5% per year over being robbed at gun point with wealth taxes or unrealised gains taxes in the order of 1 to 50%.

Choose wisely, anon. The best time to make your stack private was years ago. The next best time is today.