I use bitcoin as money all the time - both as a medium of exchange and as a store of value. Sats are also my unit of account for my long-term savings. I use lightning all the time too and it works beautifully. I’ll never use monero no matter how much people screech. Monero is useless to me. Bitcoin is my money.

I have my own LN node and use it almost every day. Bitcoin is still broken and on course for regulatory capture. Capture will destroy it's fundamental value proposition (of censorship p2p value transfer) and it will be useless to sovereign users.