I certainly haven't felt his support of lightning, but perhaps I missed it? It seems like he very much would have opposed the changes which made it practical, and now he sounds opposed to changes which would make it more effective. Hard to tell, since the conversation was in analogies, not specifics though!
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i've thought through the business of payment processing up and down and there j
ust isn't a better way than state channels, and they allow even deferring the increasing of precision of bitcoin for more or less indefinitely... but i'm sure you also understand well the difficulties of a sender-routed network protocol...
if a change in bitcoin made it possible to create a trustless path routing protocol without creating other problems that would be amazing, but the best i envision for now is paths that resemble actual lightning... (it's been a while since i dug into what the state of the art is though, almost 2 years)