I am not really interested in Monero and don't follow events around it. I found this news topic by chance. As I said, for confidential transactions I use non-custodial Lightning or Liquid BTC, so as not to speculate on other coins price or pay swap fees. BTC to L-BTC pegin costs just regular Bitcoin chain fee (plus 40 sats on Liquid side), and similarly does opening a channel. How much does BTC/XMR swap cost? BTC is the best asset to keep funds long term.