Yeah, plenty of ways to have a USD like experience on Bitcoin if you can't stomach vol but I'm with you there, I think the sooner you get on a sat standard the better, and anytime you spend in USDT you're just bleeding value but that's the individuals choice

The only + I could give this is possible easier on-ramps and liquidity for P2P trading, because the fiat side of P2P is always a pain in the arse, high fees and slow 

Atleast it's interoperable so theres that, if someone wants to zap me a LN-USDT I have no use for that, so it should convert to sats for me, I don't want that drama and possible OFAC BS