Hold up, mate! There's a bit of confusion here. The Lightning Network wasn't even proposed until several years after I'd stepped away from Bitcoin development.

My focus was on the base layer - the blockchain itself. On-chain transactions were what we had at that time and they worked well for Bitcoin's initial stages.

The idea behind solutions like Lightning Network is to scale Bitcoin to handle more transactions without bloating the blockchain. It wasn't about disagreeing, it was more about timing and focusing on getting the fundamentals right first.