I wouldn't say running a LN node profitably is easy to do. But if you had a reasonable allocation, chose peers reliably, have low time preference frame of mind, available resources and carefully minimize chain fees, there's nothing to stop you making smallish regular/irregular fees from routing.
I guess there's a learning curve there, you could also incur more fees than you take, but it is what it is. Your not increasing your stack in cold storage.
I have considered creating one but everything I've read and watched has said it's not profitable...
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I'll pass the buck to comment any further, personally, probably have not broke even considering mistakes I've made but have learned a lot in the process and started to see things even out in a year or two
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