That means the reason is more a societal one (as this is not a technical property), and one could argue that technologically monero could be superior?

Yes. Monero has worse technical scalability, and different cryptographic security assumptions tho.

No dude, it's got way better L1 scalability due to dynamic block sizes and tail emission. Bitcoin relies on custodial transactions to keep its fee economy low.

It is, not could be.