Unfortunately I'm afraid you are correct
I just wish bitcoiners would start expecting more and not try and sell half-baked solutions as privacy layers
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I fully expect blinded paths and BOLT12 to be the lightning standard across all implementations this year. This will vastly improve receive privacy over BOLT11. Phoenix already does this. As for on chain footprints, taproot is already proving to be great at obfuscating on chain events. And as for using probes and pinning to attempt to see how much liquidity are in channels, I think that may always exist HOWEVER that is not a big deal in my opinion. Lastly, there are hundreds of well connected routing nodes on the network, so big nodes don't seem scary to me. Further, you can always choose to avoid nodes when you make a payment if you want to. I will leave it there.
yeah and when all that is implemented, debugged, stress tested etc for a few years
maybe it'll be worthy of being called a "privacy layer"
but we've been hearing that LN is going to solve the privacy problem for years already
and it doesn't yet.
so knock it off with the Coming Soon™ shit
it solves it if you use it to solve it