We don't need Lightning Network at the current situation,because the bitcoin transactions are already fast and cheap.LN will work only when the blockchain is stuck and the transactions become expensive and slow.
LN should be there regardless of how congested the network is.
It only requires one bull run to make people aware of the fact that Bitcoin is a horrible mirco currency. That's why I sincerely hope that we won't be seeing any bull run in the coming 12 or so months. I definitely don't want anyone to go through a similar situation as what happened last year. Is it a good thing that new people buy $100 worth of coins and pay $25 in fees? It's a horrible user experience. People won't forget that, believe me.
Another thing is that it will incentivize big blockers even more to choke the network with rubbish transactions, all to promote how cheap BCash is and how it handles all the network traffic effortlessly.
Bull run? No thank you.