Phoenix is doing a great effort in building a simple UX, indeed.
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All Lightning wallets that open channels to users should have a better onboarding flow to explain liquidity and channel open fees.
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The new Phoenix has done an excellent job on this, seeing the screenshots (I haven't tried the beta).
One of the suggestions I made to OBW some time ago is precisely to offer a wizard at startup for channel management. Hosted channels are so interesting that they deserve more visibility (and a adequate explanation regarding the custodial part).