At a minimum, I can Uncle Jim channels or liquidity for 100+ close friends and family members. And hybrid LSP solutions like @ZEUS make that whole process, which used to require days + lots of experience in tech to now require minutes and just a basic understanding of lightning.

Again, lightning doesn’t scale to 8B people under its current structure, and there aren’t 8B people who can figure it out anyway. But directionally it’s moving towards being much much easier to manage for the average person.

The real challenge we face today isn’t the technology, the tools, or the implementation of them. It’s getting 100 million people to actually have demand to use them. Once we get there, then we can talk about further scaling challenges. 

 I'm not shitting on LN because I want to shill something else. I'm sad because there's really no goodalternative.
I just think it's important to be realistic in public and tell the rest of people how it really is. Painting this rosier picture the LN is perfect and gona change the world just makes bitcoiners sound like shitcoiners.