Lightning renders most of crypto and traditional fiat payment rails useless.

No token, open source, compatibility between implementations, adoption frustratingly slow but proper bottom up, grassroots adoption.

Most people can't run a profitable routing node and yet they do it.

Bear in mind all these people that are opening and rebalancing channels, routing transactions are not doing those in expectation of airdrops in the future.

The 5k Bitcoin in liquidity is from people doing it for the sake of scaling Bitcoin.

They've either got to be good enough to earn routing fees or be doing it for altruistic reasons.

It'll be like this till total capacity and volume goes up significantly from here. Have to appreciate anyone who is running routing nodes right now.