I *lot* of time heard from a lot of non monero people:
"Nothing happens in monero, it's annoying"

Then you might need to remind them how 2024 was rocky:
- OKX + Binance delisting
- Finnish feds tracing FUD (the deanonymized threat-actor in reality leaked his personal infos in a ransom archive so completely unrelated to monero).
- Spam attack
- LocalMonero.com closure
- Haveno-reto.com launches 2 weeks after like a community response
- botnets shutdown from feds dropping monero's hashrate, giving more opportunity for fair solo or p2pool.io mining.
- Announces about future FCMP++ integration to grow the anonset.
- chainalysis inefficient tools leaked (powered by malicious RPCs and insufficient decoy revealing because most of monero are bought without KYC)
- Kraken delistings in EU