If it is the future, then why can't I buy a pack of smokes in my lil' town using my selfhosted CLN? Because it loves to break, because I lack channel liquidity, which I can not get without swapping. Let alone the vendor needs to do all of those too. It's baggage. Both, the term "crypto currency" as well as all the tech involved and required. Just buying a credit card terminal and signing up for Square is much easier than bootstrapping coinage. It is definitively nerdy, fun to explore and - yes, I wasn't joking, I do in fact host a BTC node and my own CLN too - but not everyone can, will or even want's to do that. Remember when GPUs were scalped for Etherium? Or remember how all ransomware demands payment in crypto currency? _That_ is what most people see, and why this is, what I would honestly consider, an anti-feature. But hey, clients just...dont have to implement it. Which is nice.