Fwiw

I'm okay with Lightning taking another 10-15 years to be widely adopted in a way that adheres to properties like openness, privacy, trustlessness, security and decentralisation.

Would be disappointing for it to not happen sooner in like 2-3 years, but it is what it is.

Governance of the protocol is nascent as well, as it is with Bitcoin core. I mean, even Internet governance is opaque and nascent but that's another thing altogether.

In all honesty, I can't promise to people around me that LN will work or that it's flawless. I don't know that.

What I do know is t1hat I have used the network to send and receive value. It works.

It's worth the collective effort, despite so many people claiming that it won't work.