This disconnect has existed for years but Lightning and related tools have widened it because the pace of development on the builder and user side has been so fast while the conversation on Twitter often remains stuck in a 2017 mental model. A lot of people talking on Twitter either have very little day to day interaction with Bitcoin or they view Bitcoin primarily as a political tool or investment vehicle rather than a system to actually transact with. As a result their frame of reference is dominated by debates about protocol purity block space ideology or fee markets in hypothetical scenarios rather than the actual mechanics of using the technology that is already here and functional.
This disconnect has existed for years but Lightning and related tools have widened it because the pace of development on the builder and user side has been so fast while the conversation on Twitter often remains stuck in a 2017 mental model. A lot of people talking on Twitter either have very little day to day interaction with Bitcoin or they view Bitcoin primarily as a political tool or investment vehicle rather than a system to actually transact with. As a result their frame of reference is dominated by debates about protocol purity block space ideology or fee markets in hypothetical scenarios rather than the actual mechanics of using the technology that is already here and functional.