Bytecoin is better?
Do your homework. Bytecoin was proven to be a fraud and scam with their faked time stamps and faked blockchain from "2012". "Steadily mineable"? Once again do your research those "years" of mining was faked/spoofed into fooling people like yourself into thinking that bytecoin had a legitimate launch and distribution.
ZEC is more professional? Like how they release a BS hit piece on monero hours before the April hard fork? Then claim innocence of not knowing there was a hard fork despite it being public knowledge for weeks.
Not to mention that they have a 20% dev tax and are now officially backed by one of the shadiest banking actors in modern history?
Even scammers can be professional.
I wouldn't say that is a quality I look for at the top of my list to legitimize a coin/person/business/etc.
Everyone in this space needs to take some damn responsibility of their own financial decisions including success and failures.
Relying on someone's post to make you profit is very irresponsible.
Had you made profit and the market gone up instead I suspect you would not be as disgruntled as you are now.
Check out what is used on darknet markets, then you get an idea of useful coins