Thank you for your reply and thoughts on it. Maybe there is a market for a hodler to run a lightning-first mining pool?
There are two additional challenges related to this which come to mind:
  1. receiver privacy (something you are working on, thanks!) is important for miners, so until this is improved in lightning, they might be hesitant to adopt).
  2. an individual miner wanting to receive mining payouts via lightning would, naturally, need to have some in-bound receiving capacity.
I wonder if there is some sort of protocol which could be constructed such that a hodler can step in and solve #2.