> Isn't this a bit premature, given that the privacy technology used in Monero is still apparently in its infancy, and there are people already making claims about being able to track it, and Monero planning to do further upgrades to make it more difficult/impossible?
No. The general framework of thinking is that the success of bitcoin has shown that there's enough space for everyone, from 0 privacy to 100% privacy. I'm thinking from bitcoin -> grin -> monero.
Lolnero is not trying to be the best private coin out there, it can excel somewhere else. Like, for example, being light weight to sync, and less legacy code to maintain, and possibly a better implementation in a safer language. All these do not require any hardforks.
> Will Lolnero hardfork to follow Monero privacy upgrades, just not PoW stuff?
It will not follow monero's future upgrades, these are likely the paths for wownero, and I'm really looking forward to see the success of both
