"Just run a lightning node" ok once you have on boarded 21 boomers to doing this, then you get to say this
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Not saying it’s easy. I’m just not confused about ecash actually being bitcoin. It’s not.
You're absolutely right. It's not Bitcoin. Neither is any other custodial Bitcoin, whether an ETF or a custodial Lightning wallet. None of it is actual Bitcoin.
That said, most people simply will not be willing to do what is needed for self-custody Lightning. I say that as someone who runs my own lightning node, and who has called out these LIghtning/Liquid hybrid wallets as not actually being self-custidy.
I am not sure it is possible to make self-custody approachable enough that most people will hold their own keys for anything outside of long-term savings on chain.