Please read over this. It was put together by Paul Sztorc, but it is just a bunch of quotes and links to the biggest names in Lightning explaining why it’s broken and the many misconceptions.
Discussion
Lightning is not broken, most of these quotes describe the well-known trade-offs and many users,nodes, services continue to find use cases to make the trade-offs worthwhile. (including zaps!). To say that any of these quotes point to "lightning is broken/failed" is disingenuous, plenty of people (including myself) are comfortable participating in the network daily and see a bright future.
I will point out that Antonie Rirard's demonstration of his "cycling attack" still hasn't happened either, I am eager and excited to see who will attempt such an attack and how the network responds to it.
Hype aside, Lightning works as intended and being able to use Lightning is a useful Bitcoin skill to have (including but not limited to interacting with Coinjoins/Payjoins, Liquid, multi-sig, etc). You'll find yourself more productive learning new skills to get more comfortable with Bitcoin to fulfill your goals and needs.
Bitcoin is less about repeating talking points from "big names" in hopes to sound smarter than others, and more about putting in the time and effort to learn to solve your own problems. Eventually you gotta make your own decisions and run code on your own 🥳