If you want to spend with a high level of confidence in your privacy, just use Monero. There is no discussion here as far as I’m concerned. Far less to trip yourself on. Whenever this subject is raised though, the LN guys usually flip the conversation to savings instead of privacy
Everyone always says they don’t pay attention to the price until they experience their first major crash. You see people’s asses twitch hard when they lose 90% of their net worth
I guess you could call it an achievement , if looking at it from a market cap Wall Street investment point of view, rather than just its peer to peer freedom origins.