> Most of reddit is self-aggrandizing cliques who believe they are much smarter than they really are -- especially in the cryptocurrency space.

I highly encourage you to visit r/Monero. Those devs are the first to say it isn't perfect. They've never promised the moon or hype themselves. They acknowledge that people's lives could balance on whether or not their finacial transactions are private, so they don't overpromise and always continue to look for ways to improve.

It seems like you have an agenda and a viewpoint that doesn't line up with reality.

(And a lot of people seem to criticize Monero because it's not anonymous (which is not the goal), so that's why I say it isn't perfect. And of course there will always be an attack vector for everything: people could track serial numbers of physical cash, the NSA could track every keystroke/tap on every device, etc, but realistically it's very good and getting better about blockchain analysis attacks.)