Stacks devs are working on a native bride sBTC were you can bring L1 Bitcoin into the stacks ecosystem and out again trustlessly. Should be released on mainnet sometime Q1 2024. Also the working on Nakamoto release that will improve transaction speed.

Regardless your analysis of Stacks is solid and I won’t argue with you on it faults.

I agree with you on LN, becoming entirely captured by centralized custodians and wallets. Plus when you add a high L1 fee environment, how does that impact LN over the long term? LN is untested in this type of sustained price levels.

No one uses liquid so that basically it doesn’t exist.

Rootstock is cool to but adoption is low as well. But for all their shortcomings any of these solutions are head and shoulders above fiat currencies! I just want to see us succeed in remaking the world and making it a better place for our children and future generations. It starts with the money