I am not in the position to spin up a node at this stage but I am aware that this would give more control through liquidity management, custom routing, channel rebalancing, cryptographic proof of a transaction etc. From what I have read though there are indeed a few difficulties still to be ironed out in the network.
I’m surprised you have had trouble with custodial lightening.
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Even had issues topping it up using LN invoice on the exchange, kept saying the fresh invoice was invalad so had to do a full bitcoin transaction to have the sats for zapping.
Did you get the 21 sats I just sent over?