No it doesn't. Confidential transactions only apply to hiding amounts not sender/reciever. It says this on their own website.
"The addresses of senders and receivers further remain visible as well and can be retraced like on the Bitcoin blockchain"
What does price have to do with your original point?
You tried using Moneros transaction count as a metric for privacy, but then suggest using Liquid as an alternative which has a microscopic tx count - even compared to Monero