Privacy is one tool Monero offers and does well. Financial privacy is not a reliable determinating factor of "practical demand". It's quite niche, despite being overwhelming popular amongst current Monero users. If XMR is to go beyond that point...There will need to be more proper demand growth. Also like I said before. These guys likely won't stay.
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Time will tell. For the past year xmr has been a significantly better SOV than btc because of its superior usability as MoE.
Disclaimer : 99.9% of my stack is btc