CLN is kinda kooky tho, i mean, C, really. C.

go to LND and you can encounter a completely unresponsive, xenophobic in-group who won't merge anything unless you submit it at least 5 times

it's easy to criticise because fundamentally it's a very hard problem how to make state channel payments with path routing, and the contradiction in the mindset of the people involved who build this thing with source routed onions and then make Bolt11 invoices...