Privacy is and always has been a necessity to separate money and state. The state will otherwise persicute those who try to so on a public chain. Bitcoins privacy addons are imperfect and come with custodial risks usually.

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What are the tradeoffs for monero?

No relative network effect is probably the biggest and the 51% attacks are a result of that. Harder to audit the supply. No hardcap but asymptotically zero inflation. Larger node requirements

Smaller network could change quickly potentially I feel.

yeah that too.

We probably will just be in a multi crypto world where people use multiple assets for different purposes