2. I fail to see LN taking off in any meaningful capacity over the years and consider it a technically troubled market mismatch."

sure...

Spicy take but ok

You can just migrate to fiatjaf's fork: OBW, which introduced a bug but aside from that it works just fine.

>I fail to see LN taking off in any meaningful capacity

What the fuck are they talking about?

I read that as "Simply Bitcoin Wallet"

that was done 1.5 years ago already

why do you warm up old information and sell it as new?

i lost money on that by sending it to umbrel and when i called it back, lightning was terminated