Tell that to all the layer 3 apps being build above lightning right now.

Lightning's for payments. We're talking about messaging.

Disagree. We just can't use their network. Luckily we made our own called Lightning.

Coinosphere

bitcoin

After self-hosting my email for 23 years I gave up. The oligopoly has won.

mrldotsh

This can't be fixed with a new protocol, and the probability that they change the current one is extremely low. 

We can only hope that, with time, electronic communication slowly moves to a new medium, e.g. instant messaging. This would be our second chance to make things right.