That is the case. Also I found it just much less reliable. But hopefully it will get better.

The problem with aqua is the same as with monero here:

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/04/07/lightning-network-the-payment-network-of-the-internet/

Only true lightning is usable for swaps so far - they can be atomic, multichain and instant finality.