I think some of them have public node options, which would probably help. Requiring my wallet to be a node with the full or I believe even pruned (1/3) was clunky as hell. You may be able to run a node and connect to it similar to LN. I just got fed up with it at the time and it didnt seem worth my full investment given how little it was adopted. I'm all for them improving it, but the ecosystem still seems as small as it was. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin ecosystem has so much shit within it that I can't even know it all.
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But in fairness, I do run a Lightning node/wallet combo on my phone these days. Clunky, but not that clunky.
Yup that was happening with full node and remote node options. Issue wasn't with syncing blockchain but retjet with syncing wallet blocks.
Monero is garbage software.
I'm not quite so harsh toward it. It just doesn't have the adoption and therefore resources behind it. I just never see that changing. At least not anywhere close the the level of Bitcoin and compatible software. I do want Bitcoin compatible options that deliver on the promises of Monero though. Their ideals are sound.