I dunno? I rarely open new channels. I rarely have any force closures. I don't rebalance. I hope it breaks even or close to it. I don't run a node to be profitable. I run a node to help the network and to be self sovereign with my lightning transactions. Year one was manually rebalancing. I lost money then for sure. Year two I ran auto-rebalancing via LNDg. The past two years I haven't been rebalancing to save funds.

Gotcha...when I read "earns generational wealth" to me that implies you're making more than your cost. There's a big difference between revenue and profit. I think it's important to level set for noobs thinking about setting up a Lightning node with the sole intent of being profitable