Lightning is much worse UX. There's no consistent experience, I need to trust someone for a fucking Lightning address, my LSP can rug me on JIT payments, I lose money in transit because we have different Cashu mints? I lose money when I fail to come online when a fraudulent channel state is broadcast and not running a watchtower, This shit is just completely fucking retarded. It does not work. I do not want it. I will not accept it. I thought the foundation of cryptocurrency was immutability and trustless operation. It's in the definition. Lightning is literally not crypto. I won't put an LN address in my profile and I'm not interested in getting zaps. It's so bad that I am openly hostile to the idea. Just fucking send me Monero, which unlike Lightning is actually useful and resilient money. Your concerns for privacy are legitimate, but that should not be the problem of some web developer "using Bitcoin wrong". We have near infinite people writing software to work with Bitcoin who have limited time and resources, and the correct people to fix on-chain privacy are Bitcoin Core, who are allegedly the best and brightest and get more resources than anyone. They have the responsibility to make Bitcoin fungible and opaque through the implementation of universal zk-Snarks or ring signatures. These technologies have been reliable for 1 and 2 dozen years respectively. Bitcoin isn't usable on-chain because Core does not implement the things people actually need to make it usable money. Every single thing is to improve lightning, $130M+ for lightning, and it is an unusable disaster. Every real world application of blockchain goes to other blockchains (Monero is usable money, TRX-Tether is a replacement for SWIFT, Polygon gets the big prediction market, Solana is for general contracts) because all the development goes to lightning and lightning is just that bad. Bitcoin has lost the plot, and Lightning is a cornerstone of the dysfunction. Go yell at Core, demand 24/7 that they make Bitcoin fungible on-chain.