Thanks to lightning we now have a layer to make transactions that never make it onchain (i.e. lightning transactions don't show up on a globally replicated ledger that can be cracked or traced 10 years from now...). With lightning it requires you to use a bit different approach and be smart about wallets you use, but the privacy can be better. This really depends on your risk profile though - if you are running a set up at the level of DNM bible, then it actually doesn't matter much whether you use bitcoin or not.
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For me it does matter. I want highest grade privacy.
I've been making LN tx since it came out and I still find it cumbersome after almost a decade.
Lightning is de facto centralized, with Lightning addresses being dependent on centralized identity schemes in the form of domain names. It’s not only that this makes Lightning ripe for censorship, but provides a side channel for possible surveillance. There’s also so little Lightning activity and most of it is not even remotely anonymous that it makes it a giant autocorrelation hazard.
Until Lightning universally adopts Tor or i2p onion support for Lightning addresses, any claim to privacy or decenatrlization is an absolute joke.
You don't need to use lightning addresses, just use BOLT12... Most of wallets now support it. Also many wallets support Tor if you wish. E.g. Phoenix. And Phoenix is a good example, because it uses LSP (acinq), but it's very easy to spin new wallet, you don't need any email or anything like that.
