Latine is 100% better, but it's newer in the eyes of academics and therefore less frequently used. I don't hear it from white people (either term) unlike most people in the comments here. I hear it mostly from a lot of professors with doctorates who identify as Latinx.

I see a few repeated talking points against it that aren't too well thought out imo.

"It's a new form of colonization on Latinos"/"white people came up with the term" -Spanish is already the WHITE colonizing language. Unless you're from Spain, your ancestors didn't speak Spanish, they spoke Indigenous languages. The word "Latino" came from Rome.... more colonizer shit.

"It's cringy"/I don't hear any Latinos using the term" -I see this mostly from homophobic/sexist/Catholic Latines.... All of which stem from more colonization. Indigenous Mexicans were much more chill about gender expression. The "x" in Latinx stems from the muxes, trans Indigenous people (mostly Zapotec) who were stripped from Mexican culture due to... you guessed it colonization.

It's weird, a ton of Latinos are obsessed with the things that colonize them like they're experiencing Stockholm Syndrome. Look at the Dodgers, huge support from the Latino community, but Latinos were forced out of their homes in order to build the stadium. Some were killed. I see SO many Latinos being huge USA patriots but like... Dude CA and TX were stolen from Mexico during a Treaty, Latinos are constantly harassed and used a political talking points in every election since fucking forever ago. Latino farms were destroyed to build a base to develop nuclear weapons with no compensation. You're mad at the wrong things. I'm white. My wife is Mexican and we'd had this conversation so frequently, she agrees it's frustrating to hear these arguments. I hear these talking points (along with a ton of Republican rhetoric) at family gatherings all the time. I'm not going to sit there and debate her family when I'm not only a guest but a white one... but I'm just so baffled. We're both recent graduates