More educators and Bitcoiners should be onboarding newbies to Liquid first, with Lightning as a next step, imho.

It's not just easier from a technical view to onboard to Liquid these days given the high-fee enviro but conceptually and in terms of natural learning progression it makes the most sense.

Sidechains are a far more digestible concept than payment channels/liquidity mgmt after first learning about Bitcoin and blockchains.