It would not matter. But you can't make lightning perfectly reliable. The system is simply too complex. Too many failure cases.

And people want everyone to run their own node? Laughable. You're pushing in opposite directions at the same time. You can't win on all fronts.

Maybe in a few decades lightning will be as reliable as ecash is today, but ecash will be so much farther ahead. Complexity is a drag on innovation. It puts a cap on how much you can achieve.