Monero is a project i like and respect very much. It is the easiest currency to use privately or just in general for normal use. With a feather wallet it is a better experience than metamask, and several other networks.

It also has a bug at its core so serious no one talks about what it is, in detail: OSPEAD

The solution to Ospead may entail something hat damages what we think monero is.( It may need a key ceremony like ethereum.) Because of oversights and inexperience by early devs. Ospead is on the roadmap btw.

Bitcoin is far ahead of monero in that it has more eyes and capital searching for problems like Ospead.

A DC sidechain inherits all this work on bitcoin, all this liquidity and exit ability.

Sidechains also inherit bitcoin network affect. Wallets, after bip300 can "simply" add the zside chain already created to mimic Zcash. A "send using zside" option is easy.

All the current popular wallets WoS, Electrum, Atomic ect, have to simply add this as a security default or "mix" option.

It's the network gain similar to starting your own messaging app with a new function from scratch, such as push-to-talk, versus just adding it to What's App.

This is called a warm market, in business.

Seraphis and many other updates are band-aid solutions to the shortcomings of Monero AND Bitcoin. With DC and bip300, those go away.

Randomx is Monero's last claim to fame in a post Drivechain bitcoin world.

RandomX loses out to saturnV or a better mining decentralization solution (if possible)

Again, i deeply appreciate Monero and the community and their values.