Back when I actually had some crypto, I considered Monero / Zcash / Dash more risky, precisely _because_ they were so focussed on anonymity.

Bitcoin's ledger is a dream come true for financial investigators and tax collectors, if there was one thing a government might decide to ban entirely (and I don't accept that governments can't ban crypto, of course they can!), it would be privacy coins.

For most people though, I think the brand recognition is what does it for Bitcoin