Zeus is great, but there's no way I can recommend it for onboarding. Firstly, the transparency of channel management is great for someone who understands it, but you quickly start tossing a word salad trying to explain it to someone who's never even held their own bitcoin. Secondly, the leasing model assumes you've already convinced someone to use the wallet for months to a year, and that conflicts with convincing someone that this is some no-commitment harmless little demo. Thirdly, while I appreciate the exhaustive feature set and pace of delivery, it's unstable and requires you to open the swiss army knife of settings/tools to wrestle it into usability, from having to manually push ecash index counters to widening derivation path index gaps or straight up abandoning the wallet for manual Sparrow UTXO rescue in a recovery scenario.
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Zeus is great, but you quickly start tossing a word salad:
"manually push ecash index counters to widening derivation path index gaps or straight up abandoning the wallet for manual Sparrow UTXO rescue in a recovery scenario."
Should I be concerned that I hold my own Bitcoin (for a while now), did a couple of transactions onchain, have multiple lightning wallets and did lightning payments, but can't for the love of satoshi convince myself to actually configure, let alone use Zeus?
It's not a requirement. I think the tradeoffs to Zeus are worth exploring if you're hesitant about the privacy/custodial/trustodial tradeoffs of the other mobile wallets.