I say vision for the most part because we lack the required softforks. Although some other methods have been found using vUTXO's and whatnot for certain things. I am aware of the issues with lighting, but that being said, i have been using it daily for many years now. Now im sure you will want to ask if i run a lightning node, no i dont, i was part of the first set of lighting nodes on mainnet in 2017, and after doing all that was there to be done (i.e. buying the stickers, drawing a dick on a webpage and whatnot), i closed my channel after a few months and shut it down. But i will have you know that i am using the node of just some dude who has it running in his closet. I think these lighting devs/companies don't have their priorities straight, and are slow on delivering. Saylor is a massive dissapointment, for me primarily because lets coinbase custody the btc, being more concerned with the next financial scheme to get more btc, rather than leading the way in actually ''owning'' it for one thing, not even using it. His company could have been a big driving force in developments in that front (and demand for things like covenants). As for ''core'' being decadent and corrupt; I go to bitdevs, so i interact with some of the devs regularly and keep somewhat up with what the developments are, and my obvervation that its at least more than just decadence and/or corruption, but also that these things are not easy and that the stakes being high contributing to some sort of paralyses; its easier to do some semi-marginal things that are usefull but not super important, meanwhile others that do want to push the envelope get burned out because they get nowhere. But sure, there is some decadence, Eric Voskuil for example has been ignored for too long, but that has shifted luckely. Anyway, insofar Bitcoin is concerned i try to catch the high-signal things, but most of my attention is geared towards Nostr these days. For what its worth, i blame Saifedean and his work informing so many people in the space, which i think is a limited and crippling perspective. But then again, perhaps i blame myself for not writing a better book instead. PS: not that its important, i did not want to raise it as a point, but just to be clear, i don't really care all too much for what Satoshi had to say when it comes to discussing Bitcoin today.