Or that he is on SN, literally built using LN

What you mean with momentum issues? Besides the drop in price in BTC during the last year, the lightning liquidity has been steadily growing  with no stop and it's at all time highs.

Or do you mean with momentum issues the fact that McDonald's is accepting payments through lightning in Switzerland?

Or the biggest grocery chain in South Africa just enabled lightning payments in all their super markets?

https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1577362386498961408?t=XCQ1LugIVO-RxpRiVLp89Q&s=08

https://twitter.com/WalkerAmerica/status/1587456377504649217?t=gyYmzdqe63ukwUEhv_qqmw&s=08


Hermit

Whitepaper is 6 years old. Give it time.
For 6 years, I think we've made good progress.

bitcoin

BOLT 12 is a sleeping giant - unrolled thread

HODL

i very much doubt it, LN is having momentum issues, its like every user onboarded requires an unreasonable amount of effort in terms of education, liquidity, mainteneance, and customer support. This is what LN will die on, but lets see