First thing I would tacke is "Human friendly error messages." Second thing is simplyfying wallets. LND, CLN and Eclair all cook their own stew in this regard. We have nostr - use it. NWC is literally made for this. No need to set up a reverse proxy, works from within Tor or through a VPN and whatever. Third is making it less of an "exclusive club". Got no channels? Get rekt! ... This has to change. Not everyone has 100 USD flying around in a drawer to fund a channel to el-random-person and pray their uplink is and stays stable. Fourth: Link to existing Bitcoin wallets. Use what you got and extend upon that. Why do I need separate BTC addresses? Feels redundant and more to manage than neccessary.

The critical flaw is the existence of HTLCs. Remove HTLCs and you basically remove 99% of the complexity and things start working much better. It's too big of a change, it would basically mean starting from scratch with a new protocol -- and one that is not "trustless", so there would be crying. Try proposing this to any of the Lightning developers and watch their reaction.

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