No one is pulling up the later. Low value transactions will be just fine on other layers that are secured by the base layer. To say people who have less accumulated purchasing power don’t have freedom is disingenuous
Are these proper layers with unilateral exit to an on-chain UTXO like lightning or ark? If so, they are subject to the exact same scaling pressure as on-chain transactions. Are these layers secured by a multisig like Liquid or Fedimint? Can your multisig withstand the might of nation states? You better hope so because your life savings depend on it.