A coin that is untraceable will never be adopted by governments or major corporations. Without some sort of trace to the original buyer, banks will never have anything to do with companies who accept anonymous transactions. That is just common sense. I believe Monero is here to stay but its only going to be prioritized by people who don't want to be traced.
Are you kidding? Monero is a alphabet soup black budget ops dream. Also a corrupt politician's dream. Also an oligarch's tax haven dream. It will find massive widespread adoption at various levels in the state and its connected cronies. Right now politicians and state actors push around budgets in the trillions, engage in massive corruption with said funds, only to reaping rewards in the single or double digit millions. That's an effective capture rate of as low as 0.001% in some cases. These people are going to be able to use monero and technologies like it to capture a much much larger share of the corruption that they participate in. They are going to LOVE monero.