Judging by how often Monero used for malicious miners, the output itself is nappasive. Monero is really safe and anonymous if you need it.
Well Monero is mined by bots because its algo is CPU friendly. Also algo is at least 2/3 of time ASIC resistant. This is what matters most compared to ZCash. Compared to other coins it matters volumes on exchanges. So bot operators can exchange coins with ease.
each project will be used to one degree or another for certain purposes, if it is beneficial for someone. If the coins are anonymous and give the opportunity to use for fraudsters, then they will be relevant precisely in that field of human activity. But if some kind of coin is safe for big business, then its development will depend on investments from big business.
When you cant link transactions that makes coin fungible. So you all coins are the same. That makes you have zero fear accepting them from just anyone. Because you know that they cant be tainted and are worth exactly 1 Monero. With coins that have transparent ledger and you can link transactions you will have to be super careful to not get lets say a coin that was used by Maduro. Because then you cant spend that coin in USA since they dont like Maduro. And no one will want that coin from you except some will give you half of a nontainted coin. THIS IS MAIN VALUE of Monero. Is sad so many dont get it.