yes, i did all that because it's needed for nostr. the rest of btcd code can be avoided if nostr is your main target.

Lightning is not so easy to avoid the insanity. https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/lnwire

check the version and date on that.

they haven't fixed this, yes i filed an issue, about a year ago, and if you naively try to import lnwire, for, things ilke, you know, millisats units, hoooeeee. lol! have fun staying extremely frustrated at go mod tidy.

LND/BTCD devs need to be shamed for their terrible custodianship of the main Go codebase.