When did you get the idea that I give a shit about lightning? Of course lightning is impossible without segregating the witness data, that was the point of the softfork. But the result was abuse of the witness section, particularly after taproot opened those floodgates. I do not care about lightning. If you can scale bitcoin without adding more opcodes going forward, good for you. You probably can't which is why you, in your vanity, would attempt to attack bitcoin by adding new opcodes which will inevitably compromise the network's security.

The Poon Tradja paper does not use anything as ugly as segwit. They have a solution to maleability based on an op code irc

The mistake was just increasing the block size to 4MB and giving it a discount. That wasn’t necessary for Lightning was it?