Zcash meta: real or BS?

I've been seeing Solana guys shilling ZCash for a while now. Alliance founder Qiao Wang has been making the case for it for some time. And I initially dismissed it. Like wth? This thing has been around since 2016; why would it start to climb now? I mean, some people made a bunch of money in memecoins. So I wonder if the demand is coming from there. However...

Dems are winning. The AI trade is falling apart. America is in trouble. And Wall Street seems to be warming up to crypto, with Robinhood getting in on the action. I think Bitcoin is pretty much done. It had its moment, and now it's fading away. Solana et al. are cool, but whatever. Whereas there's this whole narrative on Zcash. The vision seems obvious. Send money and no one finds out. Which sounds almost criminal. But with the world we live in now, it could be something that everyone starts paying attention to.

Entertain this crazy reality for a moment. You hold a substantial portion of USD, and you want to get rid of it because shits about to go down. What would you do? Put it in gold, stocks, real estate, etc but then people start noticing, and you are like, crap, maybe I should try to put it into the economy. So you fuel development. But then there's a massive bubble that gets created. So you don't want to invest there anymore. Now what? Now you want to start hiding it. Maybe that's why Zcash will run up? Where am I wrong?