I run nodes. I know what I'm talking about. It's not a matter of learning. I'm not sure you're gathering the fact that my criticism of lightning comes from a deep understanding of it's architecture. It's flawed and

"just learn to make complex transactions, open channels, provide liquidity, loop out if your channels aren't balanced, oh and by the way you need at least a million sats for a couple good channels and it's going to cost you about $20 or more in fees to get to a point where you can pay for your coffee with self custody lightning"

WILL NOT SCALE to the masses. The masses just won't use it. So the problem is, lightnings architecture makes heavy incentives to use a custodian (more liquidity, more channels, better results)

Thats precisely the problem I have with lightning and no protocol update can change that.