Probably a coincidence... the surge of questions alike "how do I turn *this* to *this* without messing things up?". Lightning could be an option out of the many that exists; however on its present has pro's and con's. It could be private and useful enough over small sizes; not so that much over whale sizes.
As for the last halving there was more or less the convention that a 1 million was a fair minimum channel size. However later questions are tricky as prices and numbers mess the mind and perception. 🤪
part of teh problem is AMP is still not widely supported and many clients don't build multipath payments so it's still hard to be confident about a big payment getting through without jamming up one of the channels on the way
Since the brainlet node runner side of this I tried set the 0 fee routing, faulty agreed, as if "helping the network" was in deed lol