Are most holders here under the belief that monero will reward them more than holding bitcoin?
I can only answer for my self and I believe yes Monero is safer than Bitcoin for the long haul.
Scenario - 10 years from now, 2026. You - holding bitcoin, me - holding monero.
Future Company X deems that the bitcoin you just bought 10 years ago (right now, 2016) has a bad trail ... perhaps because the coins were obtained before monitoring services were established in the bitcoin ecosystem, so therefore your bitcoin is not as valuable as someones bitcoin mined in 2021 because it doesn't have a verified acceptable provenance.
Meanwhile my monero have no trail, so they cannot be deemed more or less worthy than someone elses monero.
Privacy is a side effect of fungibility. The "privacy features" of monero are a red herring. Its real property is fungibility.
edited for many miswords.