But that's possible. It's not possible to avoid these fees unless you have massive liquidity and are well connected. Embedded nodes will never achieve that. Lightning is great but we need something else for self custody instant payments with Bitcoin. Ark maybe? Idk. But lightning won't be it. Lightning is a fantastic institutional tool. It will never be the layer normies use to buy coffee unless it's custodied by a well connected node with lots of liquidity.

Ecash is cool too, alas, it's a further abstraction from main net so degree of trust is even further spread...