Lightning is emergent of real world constraints of trustless decentralization and the physics of Bitcoin. Nothing can be better, trust and centralization are the only levers one can pull. Ark and Spark are both crypto theater, scams just rebranding trust and centralization. Bolt12 is just tor-wrapped nonsense peddled by NGOs and LSP salesmen milking anyone naive enough to waste sats on a mobile "node". CLINK and Lightning.Pub accept the reality that node runners are the new elite, that trust must be locally distributed instead of hidden, and that Lightning needs a robust protocol to connect services, nodes, and the web. All via Nostr of course.