Monero might be traceable, the devs downplayed it and said that it's fixed and more secure. I think you are confusing anonymity with privacy. If you send a Monero transaction and someone is spying on your network traffic, by analyzing data packets, patterns can be identified to determine that you are using Monero. Your IP address reveals your identity and so you are not anonymous.

For anonymity, you need a wallet that integrates Tor into the wallet. Monero has a serious privacy competitor called DeepOnion, which is even faster and has lower fees than Monero. By integrating Tor into the wallet, DeepOnion never leaked a single IP address since day 1.