Those 1800 PUBLIC nodes are serving some others LSPs
The few LSP are serving more than 1800 users with PRIVATE nodes.
Private nodes are more than you cam imagine and are the ones that are making more txs than you can imagine.

Public nodes and LSPs have an important role in LN, no doubt about that. But never forget also about private nodes.

As I said here: 
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