It's one of those things where you just need to give it a bit of time.  Lightning is still in beta and it hasn't even been on mainnet that long yet.  All the stuff that will make it easy and user-friendly will come later.  Also, not everyone has to be using Lightning for it to take some of the pressure off layer 0.  Any payment-channel-routed transaction is a transaction not taking up space in the blockchain.  If all the people using it only have to use up space in blocks when they open and close channels, they could still send thousands of transactions that will never touch the blockchain until the final balance is settled, so that's still going to be less traffic than we see generally.  It all helps reduce congestion on the network.