Monero is more ASIC resistant than Bitcoin, so it is much better than a simple SHA256 based PoW.

Also, because it's so ASIC resistant, it gives the little miners (potato cpu havers) a better chance at contributing to the network. Bitcoin has huge ASIC miner farms absolutely dominating the network, and because SHA256 hardware implementations are so trivial to make, said ASIC's are very cheap too.

imo, Monero is the best thing to have if you care about your anonimity