Over the past two years since I first started using lightning, I've gone from mainly sending payments from exchanges or my own wallets to myself, to thousands of transactions logged on just my own node let alone the countless wallets I've used along the way.
Be it micro payments for a Nostr shitpost, purchasing artwork from an npub I admire, mitigating disorganized utxo sets by giving me a threshold to build before withdrawal on chain, integration with cashu mints, or tips on SN.
Anytime I read or hear the recurring cries of Bitcoin can't scale or no one is using it for payments hasn't had my, or likely many of you here, experience with lightning. It may be complicated in many ways under the hood, and I've had my various hiccups along the way, but it has completely changed the way I interact with Bitcoin.
It's scaled my use and habits, and I'm more willing to spend some sats since the flexibility it has given me has basically simplified the process to the tap of an icon on many occasions.
It all really began here with the integrated wallet. So I suppose without that small jumping off point, I may still be ignorant of all the things being built and the improvements that happen outside of my scope.