There's a trade off you have to make where you can choose either absolute privacy and computational inflation guarantees, or vice versa. Strangely confidential transactions chooses strong privacy over inflation guarantees.
I mean, you have to keep your savings somewhere, right? You need savings for when you retire. And no alternative offers 100% anonymity, so in that case you would risk your anonymity for the security of your savings, right?
I’m not saying cryptocurrency will comprise even a minor part of your retirement savings any time soon, but perhaps in 10/20/30 years?
The problem is that non-private cryptocurrencies are permanent records of financial activity. I would rather risk soundness now than privacy forever, especially when there are post-quantum paths forward and our current assumptions are reasonable.