I myself refused to touch XMR until it had both CT and minimum ring sizes.  I don’t think that it was a worthwhile privacy coin before 2017, at the earliest.  Bigger ring sizes, and better selection of mixins, have been only some of the important changes since then, in terms of privacy.  (Bulletproofs and RandomX are important for other reasons.)

This is not to express negativity toward Monero, but rather, to say:  Never stop improving!  MRL’s work is an important part of the Monero value proposition.  A better solution to the coin merge problem would be excellent; I think that it would go a long way toward preventing probabilistic clustering, à la CipherTrace.

My perspective:  I lost out big time by avoiding Bitcoin for years, due to its abject lack of privacy.

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Congrats.  Your permanent blockchain records are probably at least a little bit less revealing than most people’s. ;-)