The joke is on them as those are not even shielded transactions.
Intel community pumping ZEC which draws attention to the privacy sector can be seen as the final straw. They have no other men's anymore to suppress prices, so you deflect.
No more CEX to manipulate prices
Those CEX that still list it maxed out fractional reserves
Network attacks failed
Qubic take over failed
Altcoin pumps failed
FCMP coming
DEX gaining in volume and popularity
Monero dominating white, grey and black markets by volume
Monero is. It is the most resilient coin and it's already in the process of dismantling fiat currencies.
NGU currently matters only for one metric (security against 51% attacks). Everything else is a short term snapshot vs the abyss that is fiat. So without any information. Sorry Bitcoin, it doesn't matter vqhat your price measured in USD is.