Monero is still very useful for making private transactions if you’re buying or selling anything that isn’t legal in your jurisdiction. Lots of other coins are

Monero is still very useful for making private transactions if you’re buying or selling anything that isn’t legal in your jurisdiction. Lots of other coins are useful for exchanging money outside of the traditional financial system but the majority of people don’t need them and if you use them you need to handle the inherent volatility of something you don’t want to be volatile, and the on- and off-ramping cost and inconvenience. Web3, defi and NFTs seem like a bit of dud so far and most projects are somewhere on the scale from “useless” to “outright scam”. And of course many people won and lost lots money by speculating on crypto prices.