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 Wasn't pheonix self-hosted? Did it connect to them for something in the backend that brings them risk? 
 The app on your phone is a node so your own funds are self custodial. But it connects to their node for routing liquidity. This move by them seems to imply (I'm only guessing) that they believe their routing and liquidity services could bring them under legal scrutiny.  
 Without connection from your app/node to a good routing node, your own funds are unable to be sent anywhere via lightning even though you still have the private keys to the funds.  
 Lightning is going to get harder to run then. I hear self-hosting your own service is a major headache, especially with the many different methods (that I don't know the differences between)