It all feels risky when these apps stop supporting their projects like Phoenix and Mutiny. Phoenix left the US market and said they would stop serving US customers Mutiny is shutting down and requires self hosting. Without notifying the friends that you onboarded they could get rugged. I love Zeus and I don't think it's going away, and it's a node in the phone so there is no rug risk. I did have to help people move away from it because the complexity often left them with locked funds or bad channel states. Alby Hub feels like the best self custody option right now, but it's definitely dependent on Alby Accounts, creating another risk. I'm simplying telling people to take Uncle Jim's life seriously, because you may need to notify people of deprecation even when a wallet is self custody in practice.

Ok, I understand your point. Luckily I'm not in US so Phoenix is still one of the best option with Breez. Both, as well as Mutiny, are self-custodial, so nobody will get rug what ever happen. There is always the possibility to close all channels and send funds to an on-chain address, even if it could get more or less tricky in some cases, like you mention for Zeus. I didn't test Alby Hub, it looks like similar to a self-hosted BlueWallet LndHub with some more functionality but nothing that cannot be done with LNbits already. I will definitely give a try on my node anyway. In any case it's already advanced use cases and if you create account for your friends on your Alby Hub, it's basically like if you create account for them on your BTCPay Server, LNbits, LndHub or eCash mint, same responsabilites to have them updated and on top your must ensure you don't fuck up with your node and loose some or all the sats there, yours and theirs. While I attend meetup, I still recommend testing Lightning first with some sats, up to 10-20$ worth max, with WalletOfSatoshi, then move to Phoenix for normal user or Breez for merchants (PoS with boltcard support), finally when ready they can move to Zeus, Sparrow, hardware wallet or eventually running a node if they feel to, at least to connect their wallet for self-checking on-chain data. It's a journey, everyone will do it differently, some will be confortable doing Uncle Jim's bank, some won't, but it's better to do something for adoption, than just sit and wait.