I suspect it will. It makes them look behind, even from a normal person's POV - the largest "crypto" by market cap has a working L2 that a large competitor supports.

The only way they might be able to justify not supporting it is UX. It is confusing to have two forms of bitcoin, but you can quite easily demote lightning visually so that only Bitcoin power users would need to concern themselves with choosing between the two.

Thank you! Your comment reply was the catalyst for me composing this post:

TOP bitcoin story of the day? You wouldn't know by following "crypto" industry media #17364