#Bitcoin is a mess currently. We've got people minting nonsense on-chain that's driving up fees for everyone else, which makes UTXO management and mixing a nonstarter currently. It also prevents people from "taking your Bitcoin off exchanges" as we love to chant. It's hard to explain why fees are high for noobs. Meanwhile we punt lightning which is majority custodial and feels like falls apart in high fee periods, and is not supported with most exchanges globally, which is where most, normal people will want to exchange.

Just seems weird to me we can simultaneously talk up Bitcoin and all it's virtues and look past the fact that a simple transaction is $3 right now and who knows what'll happen to your custodial Lightning wallet. Electronic cash, it is not. Lightning seems like a complex and unstable mess that has to be readjusted every time the wind changes direction, and with Bitcoin is getting more and more complex with each PR to the point that I don't know if I'm running a node that will later play host to some debilitating bug. Those who created it are motivated to keep L1 incentives as is so L2 is always necessary, and oh look, they created L2 as well.

Bitcoin should be as a simple as possible. Less risk of complexity, and bugs, and unexpected edge cases, and accept that, for now, it's a savings technology that's striving to be money. Lightning needs cleansing fire.