I would say a few things in response to "its quite terrible":

• This, at least from what I've been using, is 98% because of Lightning Addresses. The pain of hosting your own domain and server is precisely why the internet has become centralized.

• It takes no time at all to withdraw to a wallet in my control, which I do daily. Custodial wallets have been solely for integration with zaps.

• The major problem with custodians is exposure in SIZE, not kind. No one has their life savings zapping around on WoS. The reason we want to avoid custodians isn't a purity test, its about risk. $5 at "risk" is very, very different from $5,000.

• BOLT12, have you heard about BOLT12? I'd like to tell you about BOLT12

If we make it so people have to run their own servers and buy their own domain to receive zaps, then we should expect for the exact same portion of people to do so as those who currently host their own cloud storage & run their own password manager.

*Despite* the reliance on custodial for the singular feature critical to zaps, the staggering drop in the barrier to exit as well as the much more open market for custodial apps is still a world's difference from where we are coming from. I mean shit, the whole zaps universe over here is barely weeks old.

Yes, we can do better & I wish we already had the tools that fix the few major weaknesses here, but I think it's foolish to mistake this as not having made enormous progress in the right direction.