Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many of the properties listed in that comparison table make it a worse currency. The prime ones being poor scalability (not only large txs but also having to track all historical outputs, not just the unspent ones) and poor second layer support (no relative time locks).
There's work underway for Monero to use the Lightning network, which scales to millions of transactions per second.
citation needed. i've only seen research proposals for one directional channels, or for networks with 3rd party escrow.