I agree. I don’t see how the plebs is going to adopt lightning as a non-custodial method of payment when many folks are still reluctant to use the base layer which is magnitude easier to use. Also, lightning doesn’t seem a scaling solution either. I’m afraid Bitcoin will remain stuck with the “digital gold” use case which has its pros and cons. Non-custodial payment has to happen on L1 or it won’t happen. L2s have too many tradeoffs whether on the UX, security or non-custodial nature. I hope that #eCash / #XEC (BitcoinCash fork) can succeed in this mission. They seem to be the only project aiming to scale fast payments on L1. They have an interesting approach by mixing Nakamoto and Avalanche consensus.