The Lightning network already uses other nodes to route payments. Doesn't BOLT12 just extend this concept to also route messages?
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It extends arbitrary data onto Lightning, which is as much of an attack as jpegs on the chain... payment traffic is naturally bonded
But all that aside, it's introducing 2 round trips across all those hops, each hop exponentially increasing failure probability and mean-time-to-payment