Yes Lightning is Bitcoin - but to your own point, "lightning and LN Node operators needs to evolve to handle this more appropriately." That's certainly more constructive to me than a shrug. I understand that these problems get addressed but I'm interested in the "how."
And again, it's not about day-to-day fee rates. It's about the big pumps, the potential for them to become bigger and longer, and how they get handled when it happens.