really just saying that openness matters most and in the setting of lightning where there are lots of centralized services and most use a centralized exchange or wallet the network is still open where everyone can permissionlessly leave to their own node if they wish. 

2big2fail

You're saying one does not have to participate in decentralized systems if one can swittch to decentralized systems anytime. Is that what you are saying? If everyone did that then decentralization would be dead basically. And if decentralized systems did not exist then one would have no choice but be at the whims of a few powerful centralized players.

bitcoin

Unpopular opinion: Centralization is not a problem 

Your statement contradicts itself.

You're saying one does not have to participate in decentralized systems if one can swittch to decentralized systems anytime. Is that what you are saying? If everyone did that then decentralization would be dead basically. And if decentralized systems did not exist then one would have no choice but be at the whims of a few powerful centralized players.