Monero has more market exposure but nothing was more anticipated then a zerocash protocol coin, what is it about zk-snarks that makes Zcash dif from monero?
If they work as per theory, zk-snarks offer a larger anonymity set. Only time will tell if defects of design or implementation, or of covert intent, demolish this merit.
My principal objections to Zcash are the 20% tax, the corporate governance, the statements of Wilcox and Greene regarding responsiveness to subpeona, and the sigint associations of various team members, not zk-snarks.
Zclassic does not suffer from such problems.