Is Bitcoin mixing outdated?

People still bring up Bitcoin “mixing” from time to time, but it feels like that idea hasn’t really aged well. A lot of the assumptions around how private it actually is don’t seem to hold up anymore, especially as analysis tools have improved.

Bitcoin was never designed with strong privacy in mind, so trying to bolt it on afterwards has always felt a bit limited. Purpose built privacy focused networks seem to approach the problem very differently.

Just a general thought on how privacy is often misunderstood in crypto , and how different tools were created for different goals.