I have always admired privacy coins and not just monero alone, I consider them the future with the whole clamp down by SEC and agencies, I feel like there Is a war between the institutional finance system and the blockchain oriented finance system and it might further drive users into the world of advanced privacy, even though bitcoin is still the flagship and most popular crypto currency, people will opt for a privacy driven coin to avoid certain brouhaha.
At first I thought that Bitcoin offer that privacy until when I knew better. Without privacy, there will be huge problem in the future and recent developments already confirms this. Even though privacy coins can also be used for the wrong reasons, they offer the only way out of total control by the super powers.
For several governments and agencies to be against mixers they bring some level of privacy to Bitcoin, it is an indication that they will see privacy coins as a big threat to their power.