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The FUD is that TPS is what matters. A transaction could be anything from a single payment to a massive coinjoin. Usable capacity should be measured in terms of transfers rather than transactions.
If we define a coin transfer as spending one coin and creating one new coin, then the coin transfer capacity is roughly:
1000000 / 600 / (input_vsize + output_vsize) coin transfers per second
Assuming all P2WPKH, that's:
1000000 / 600 / (68 + 31) = 16.8 ctps
And assuming all Taproot:
1000000 / 600 / (57.5 + 43) = 16.6 ctps
That is the on-chain transfer capacity if we assume a constant UTXO set size.
In the future, full-aggregation CISA can save up to 16 vB per input, giving:
1000000 / 600 / (57.5 - 16 + 43) = 19.7 ctps
For getting new users into Bitcoin, the real limit is the rate at which new UTXOs can be made. The size of a Taproot or P2WSH output, such as that needed for a Lightning channel, is 43 vB. Thus the limit for the number of outputs per second is:
1000000 / 600 / 43 = 38.8 outputs per second

Input/output sizes from Bitcoin Optech Transaction size calculator