Bitcoin on the other hand does need such a protocol because it is decentralized in every aspect.protocol.
No it is not and the miners would soon be up a gum tree without pool sites and you seem to forget Lightning is very centralized and
builds single points of failure into the system.
every man for himself does not really cut it on large scale systems and specialized coordinator type nodes are needed but that
does not mean we have to lose control and this also cuts down on useless internet chatter.