Several months ago I paid like 20k sats for 2M more inbound on my initial channel I had. I thought it was going to be a waste and regretted it but, after some use, and not using it as a constant zapping tiny amounts wallet but as a general hub to my others, Ive come to appreciate it.

So I just fill it partially until I'm comfortable for a utxo, splice out and be done with it. Until I need more liquidity I guess, but if you plan ahead and get more inbound than you generally would need, it does make it easy.

Getting over the channel shrinkage at splice out at first though 😂