People who want to sovereignty on lightning can run their own node. At the end of the day this is all that matters, and what lightning achieves. I run my own node, zap out of it, run my business out of it. It is working as intended.

If people choose custodial solutions that’s on them. I use custodial wallets alongside my node. The other day I just moved some of my node’s sats into wallet of satoshi to pay for something because my direct-to-cln wallet wasn’t installed at the time. It’s a flexible systems that enables lots of different use cases at different levels of custodianship.

The reason I prefer lightning over things like liquid, etc is that at the end of the day it has a feature called unilateral exits, which always allows you go to back on chain. The FUD around how lightning centralizes bitcoin is bizarre to me, it’s just a tool for setting up onchain bitcoin to be utilized more efficiently and with lower fees.

You can always recover base-layer decentralization via unilateral or cooperative exits if you need it, so the FUD is nonsense.