But let's be real for a second.
1. e-Commerce is rarely if ever happening with crypto. It just isn't. Even if the coin is supposedly "better or faster" for spending.
2. Traders want lower transaction fees for more trading and no fee friction. That's it.
3. Miners HATE hodlers, because they get no transaction fee revenue if coins just sit.
4. The establishment would love nothing better than HFT on-chain. But of course, they will never ever achieve such a thing.
I do not agree Torque. The first use of bitcoin came hand in hand with black markets. It was at that moment that the world learned that there was an alternative form of payment to the conodic system. We can disagree, but I think it is very important that bitcoin is kept as a form of payment. Its use in a real system prevents, or makes more difficult its speculative manipulation; as it currently happens with gold.
Soon we will see if LN serves these purposes or not.