Lightning inherits the incentive dilemma that shitcoins highlighted against Bitcoin
Since it is truly decentralized/disintermediated and "just works" as money, the profit motive skews towards something else or "new"
Enter fake L2s, shitcoins 2.0, affinity scamming as Bitcoin
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Lightning is also up against unit bias and time preference, just shitcoins leveraged this against Bitcoin.
1000 sats to open a channel? Pffft, i'll spend 10,000 sats in fees over time to a centralized swap
No different than losing purchasing power by holding shitcoins