There are atomic swaps, but they are still pretty new and don't have a lot of liquidity https://www.getmonero.org/2021/08/20/atomic-swaps.html

Yeah, this is intuitively what I thought as well. That with atomic swaps, Monero would be like a defacto-privacy-sidechain or something. The thing is, not that many people do it, to the point that you really aren't getting very good privacy out of it because if the low anonymity set.. And i think you are probably leaking timing info to whatever place/app you are pulling off your atomic swap at.