That's about where I'm at. I've been told that someday the base layer fees will be so outrageous that we will have to rely on L2, and then I look at the user experience on lightning and think, jesus, this is a nightmare. Then I rant about lightning and get fed bullshit about tradeoffs - yeah cool, I can choose between someone else rugging me or rugging myself - awesome. 

 The difference between base and lightning is that at least on the base chain you can choose when to pay a high fee. With lightning, you get force close channels and bad channel management. How lovely would it be to see 100k sats in your lighting wallet but not be able to make a payment because you have no outbound liquidity 🤡