Then, do you find it fair to say it's very possible that the decisions by Bitcoin Core is a deliberate attempt to have people use centralized, non-sovereign forms of bitcoin?
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It is possible.
Are you a core dev?
The core devs I am aware of are not trying to make Bitcoin worse money. Scaling solutions for LN arent as sovereign as I like them. The UX really sucks. I 100% agree with you.
Though to suggest there is an active drive to make Bitcoin non-sovereign (custodial) without much evidence only spreads a misunderstanding to others.