One advantage of BTC/ lightning that may be lost on non users - there is no fear of phonecalls or unexplained refusal of perfectly innocuous payments to other countries.
My first use case of BTC was buying a hardware wallet from an eastern European country. I spoke three times to the UK bank security team and each time they couldn't see any technical reason why the payments couldn't go through. I don't think they were playing dumb, but someone on a higher pay grade than them probably knew why they failed to go through.