Exactly why we need BOLT 12 yesterday instead of everyone just using a poor alternative in LNURL that is hard to do in a self-sovereign way (as it requires an entirely separate web server etc.)

BOLT 12 has been around for 2y and implemented in Core Lightning for 1.5y and yet we can't actually use it. Sad and depressing state of things, IMO partially caused by people being able to skate by using crappy alternatives due to offloading responsibility to a 3rd-party like WoS.