Monero does ~8x more transactions in proportion to market cap

What does any of that have to do with privacy, fungibility, and cheap txs? You're losing value by just USING Bitcoin. Worse than fiat. The more you USE Bitcoin the poorer you get especially going into the future as tx fees continue to rise.

Then don't hold it long term. If you speculate this trend will continue into the future no one is forcing you to save with Monero long term or to hold a lot of it. Do you store all your value in cash or expect cash to be the best store of value? No. But it is useful and a great medium of exchange with different strength vs gold or other commodities. Global cash market is ~$100 trillion. Cash is king. Monero is a better p2p digital cash.

Monero has no limit, but has a predictable steady inflation rate (unlike fiat), and inflation is less than that of gold. So scary! Is gold worthless?

You audit Monero the same way you audit Bitcoin. You run a node. You type in a command and it spits a number back out. In practice, no Bitcoiner is taking advantage of Bitcoin's transparent simple math by manually adding up all inputs and all outputs every 10 minutes. So what is the real world difference? It's larping.