In all aspects of life these impatient & limited attention days everything is a failure unless its perfect for everyone everywhere instantaneously. Millions of people regularly use lightning successfully, but its certainly not perfect. Nothing is perfect. BTC onchain isn't perfect. LN and BTC are just better than fiat, but have limits and tradeoffs. No one said they were perfect. Go back and read the LN white paper. Most issues people are raging about today were in the original white paper years ago. Let's try to be realistic and celebrate incremental improvements by hardworking companies and devs. The fiat system is the result of centuries of work by countless people and it still sucks. By those standards we are just getting started.