what interests me in particular is how Mr. Average will perceive lightning networks and how they'll be sold to him.

It's conceivable that users may choose to delegate absolutely everything to third parties. they might buy with fiat directly into already existing channels run by an exchange or coinbase equivalent and expect all channel management to handled by them as well.

even now with all the cool tools to hand, many, many people are too lazy and dumb to spend a few minutes learning how to take control for themselves and that's with something less complex than this.

i'll be the first to admit i don't understand a great deal about it but for now it still looks like a very cool experiment, not the savior of everything.