From a sender perspective UX is nice but to receive in a trustless way you basically need to run a full node
so pumped for silent payments
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28122
going to experiment with an onchain zap spec soon
Discussion
indeed
I don't think this is any more so for silent payments than any wallet which is backed by electrum. Check out the light client work around BlindBit (built by me). Some of the stack in blindbit is nearing a public experimental stage. I have been using it for a while now