yes but LN already solves most of those problems with mere bandwidth and cheap scripting engines and game theory, and not these outrageously complex and expensive cryptographic operations

it's a lot of work being done on an area of the field that has been a barren wasteland meanwhile not enough resources are going towards solving the problems that mar the 1-5% of edge cases where the state channels have problems

honestly, by your logic, atomic swaps between monero would probably be satisfactory

blockchains are low bandwidth by design, and for a reason - to stop spam

if your endgame is about payment privacy the problem of bandwidth for payments is very relevant as well

the more people who finally understand that sidechains don't do anything but kick the can and waste brains making bullshit the better it will be for this field

honestly, can you look at CLN, LND and acinq and say that we have enough devs working on LN? really?

i've been on the ground watching the work of the LND devs and their work with the prior project BTCD and i despair at the travesty that i am not able to do anything material to help it, and after 3 times trying to contribute i say that the bigger problem is everyone is throwing money at "easier" problems and not solving the actual working solutions low quality of code!