By my calculations in observing high value transactions (which is the only thing blockchains can accommodate) in real estate, cars, etc, Bitcoin needs a minimum of 50 TPS or 8 MB blocks + Schnorr sigs to function as a working global monetary system with market penetration in the upper middle class.  If you want to take a fuck everyone and their dumb ideology approach, then you would likely just set it and forget it at that minimum required value and never touch it again.  

So now we have to evaluate if Lightning Network actually takes us over this 50 TPS threshold without introducing more problems than it solves, yet it's not actually possible to evaluate LN because there's no concrete routing solution implemented.  We're kinda just sitting around waiting to see if some guy named Rusty Russler is legit in building this stuff or not, or if it can even be done without increasing centralization more than what it is now.  

The not so conspiracy side claims that since Blockstream is being funded with several millions of dollars, there would need to be a way for them to monetize the system via network effect to regain their capital, meaning the routing would inherently lead to more centralization because they wouldn't make any money otherwise.  So I guess the only way to find out is to follow the money trail and find out if Blockstream is being funded by someone who already holds a large position in BTC and wishes to enhance that value, or by someone who doesn't currently own BTC and wishes to extract from the masses by usury skimming in having a big share of transactions routed to them.

And that is the story of Bitcoin.