yeah, lightning was a big part of what turned on the lightbulb for me and turned me maxi, that and watching cosmos chains fall in a heap in the Terra/Luna crash, the two things happened concurrently for me

the simple fact that lightning's total capital tied up in channels already exceeded 5000BTC two years ago tells the story

if 10% of that is moving back and forth every day that means the liquidity of lightning network is literally 50 million USD worth of payments taking place... PER DAY, then at that point the annual volume of lightning was already 1.8 billion per year, and i think this is a conservative estimate of things but it's getting close to the size of a small country just lightning, and bitcoin itself was already bigger than denmark 2 years ago concurrently to that