Crypto is a not private. The blockchain is public.

Not necessarily true for all ledgers, such as monero.

Necessarily true for Monero. Theirs is public too, freely available for anyone to download and analyze. The rest of your response did not refute this. An honest response might have been “transactions are public, but…” and you could have laid out your rebuttal, but denying a fact and following it up with irrelevant PR does not make me more confident in the project.

That, and the simple explanation that evangelizing Monero has a perverse incentive I hadn’t even considered (it benefits money launderers in addition to speculators) makes me trust it all the less.