#[9] is very good at what it does. It's an excellent consumer Lightning wallet that processes more transactions that probably any other Lightning wallet ever created. It has an active development team who support the mission of bitcoiners, and I have no reason to believe that they are, or will become a bad actor. They're here on Nostr, they listen to our suggestions, and you can ask them your questions directly.

I prefer running my own node and verifying my own transactions over using a custodial wallet, because I have the ability to do so. I still use Wallet of Satoshi for some things, most of all, helping onboard others to bitcoin and Lightning for the first time, because they make it easier than anything else I've seen. I just think of them as a good first step, and people should begin exploring other ways to use bitcoin once they've gotten used to using it.