The *privacy tech* that Zcash uses is better, and their researchers are great. But Zcash itself not so much... Bad implementation of the tech and design decisions: optional privacy, not fungible, no default IP privacy, trusted setup, dev tax on mining, centralized corporate entity, transitioning to PoS, etc. Bias source obviously, but much of this is true if you DYOR:

/XMR/ Monero General Info-Dump