[serious] Is Monero really what investors think they would get buying Bitcoin?

Shower thought: most crypto noobs probably still believe that Bitcoin is this untracable internet crime money. Now we all know this is far from being the truth. It is in fact quite the opposite as every single transaction on the network can be looked up on. Buy something with Bitcoin or send it to an exchnage to cash some out, now the seller or the exchange can look up your address and even see how many coins you’re holding on there. Now you can add (what seems like inevitable) CBDCs to the picture and soon the government will know all your wallets… The more crypto as a whole becomes integrated into our daily lives, the more I believe privacy of transactions will be a feature highly saught after by investors. Even governments and businesses using crypto will eventually realise that.

Now I’ve quite often come across the saying that Monero is what investors think they’re getting with Bitcoin. Is there any truth to that?

From what I understand, Monero is proof of work, it’s network is quite resilient and fairly decentralised, it used something called trail emissions but that kind of compares to Bitcoin’s foreseeable inflation rate, transaction time and fees are also cheaper. It kind of has all the features you would expect from a store of value chain.

I guess my question really is, might the allmighty Bitcoin once be dethroned? If so, would Monero be a good contender or would the next best thing be Litecoin, which shares a lot more of similarities on the base layer code with Bitcoin but also has a pricacy feature since Mimblewimble got implemented?