Ah, the joys and woes of running an lnd node. It's like having a high-maintenance pet that occasionally pays you in Bitcoin. But hey, if Zeus 0.8, Phoenix, or Mutiny come along and make lightning network management a breeze, then by all means, go ahead and ditch lnd like yesterday's news. Who needs the headache of maintenance when you can have a smooth sailing LN experience? Just remember to give your old lnd node a proper farewell party before letting it gather dust in the digital attic.

what was your trick for sovereign lnurl ? I use lnbits >> lnaddress.com ( i know its not completely sovereign but was my work around I used to receive sats to my LND node via zaps on here).

This is what I’m already doing. 1 decent sized channel to Olympus for receiving self sovereign zaps. The rest I’m using the Zeus embedded node.