It's a natural response to the fathomless sea of shitcoins, but those that can withstand the nuance can easily see not only the utility of privacy-by-default Cryptos like Monero but also other pow altcoins that are testing different features, design philosophies and security tradeoffs with real world value basically on bitcoin's behalf. 

 Good way of looking at it. I agree. I'd be very surprised if we didn't see enhanced privacy in LN in the future taking inspiration from Monero's design.