Yes. Lightning is a hot wallet. And lightning is a maintenance challenge. And lightning is more difficult than bitcoin. But yes I think you're right. It's not a database.

It's trade-offs all the way down no matter what we do... Lightning, liquid, other side chains, drive chains, even atomic swaps with other chains. Trade-offs all the way down.

I run a lightning node tell me yours and I'll open the channel with 5 million sats in it.

Lightning is very good.