BTW, Monero never claimed to be anything new (though new things have been since added), it was launched as a direct of clone bytecoin (cryptonote) to get rid of the 82% premine. The rest of the technology was (and is) just fine.
You can talk about technology without talking about XMR why not talk about bytecoin same difference

1. Why would one talk about a scam with an 82% premine that is now largely abandoned. It matters for historical purposes only.
2. I'm less familiar with what the Bytecoin project is doing these days, if anything at all.
3. By all accounts (even the scammers, who I tend not to believe anyway) the true innovators here were "cryptonote", who invented the cryptographic scheme.
4. People seem to be asking about the similarities and differences between SDC and Monero. No one is asking about Bytecoin (see #1 above).
well since XMR is a copy and paste of bytecoin it's pretty relevant the only real difference is the the lack of premine, SDC is scaled down and not cloned may use tech that is similar to cryptonote but it's not.