Hearing the opinions of those outside our small community will help.
I saw Bitcoin Core developers being questioned today as being part of an effort by Blockstream to encourage "crowded and expensive blocks" as a method to drive demand for CT sidechains.
Some would infer that a somewhat expensive and crowded main chain environment might incubate such services, for transactions generally, not just those seeking confidentiality. Why are they wrong?
I tried to defend Greg Maxwell in a polite manner by mentioning his plans to scale Bitcoin Core (and citing Segregated Witness) and that CT provides great value whether or not it is ever used in a sidechain (linking the work of Shen without mentioning Monero by name)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1343716.msg13706912#msg13706912