I’m very curious to understand what the future holds for the project, and whether Monero will be part of all of our future or remain on the margins

Will the world move toward a system where financial privacy on blockchain remains a legitimate, infrastructure-supported right, or will it gradually become a marginalized capability that only survives at the edges of the financial system?

Those currently in power don’t want XMR/Monero-like cryptocurrency to be a legitimate infrastructure for obvious reasons. That’s for sure. But privacy-focused currencies will always have a niche crowd of users like us. Let there be no doubt about that.