You care more about Fluffy than any Monero user I've known. He hasnt been involved in Monero for awhile nor did he create Moneros protocol.
Lol @ backdoors
Let's look at some quotes from a few well known Bitcoiners and a few LN devs:
"it's quite terrible...~95% of users have their lightning address set to a custodial wallet" -Benthecarman
https://x.com/benthecarman/status/1638006709741289474?s=20
"The problems with LN..." -Paul Sztorc
https://twitter.com/Truthcoin/status/1719388665107947959
"Lightning Network -- Fundamental Limitations" -Paul Sztorc
https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/lightning-limitations
"I consider LN a done deal..." -SBW
https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv5jyfh9gp2qnhruevrph39s2mspzfw3e9mx5avg0wenltrdjnnhgsx4pzg
"I think this new class of replacement cycling attacks puts lightning in a very perilous position, where only a sustainable fix can happen at the
base-layer" -Antoine Riard
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-October/004154.html
"...I am scared that even in Mastering lightning we won't be able to fix that" -Rene Pickhardt
https://twitter.com/renepickhardt/status/1298918019159207942
"Lightning = unreliable by design" -Rene Pickhardt, LN developer
https://x.com/renepickhardt/status/1726331107560542707
"Threats to Lightning Network..." -Alex Bosworth
https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1400467321093713923
"One of the biggest supporters of Lightning...Learned TODAY how payment channels work" -Eric Wall
https://x.com/ercwl/status/1725903544660705728?s=20
https://x.com/fiatjaf/status/1617295539472683010?s=20
"...All you can build is a half-working payment channel network" -Fiatjaf
“In the future, if you have this one-megabyte restricted blocksize and the Lightning Network, it is still the rich people and companies that can use lightning but the average user probably can’t.” -Tadge Dryja, co-author of The Lightning Network White Paper
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/tadge-dryja-on-the-limitations-of-the-lightning-network