Yeah, same. I think trying to introduce any privacy features on L1 is a mistake. Monero has the classic problem: confidential transactions + confidential balances means that its hard/impossible to audit supply. This rules out Monero from ever being considered for multi-decade storage.

The best outcome is to improve privacy on L2 - whether thats LN or something else - and keep L1 as is regarding privacy/transparency.

As an aside, using something like AQUA allows you to break chain analysis, since you can peg-in to Liquid from BTC, then pay a LN invoice from Liquid, so its very difficult to associate the flows.