the funny thing about bitcoin cash and its followers is that they talk shit about bitcoin while doing whatever bitcoin does, either now or in the near future. and i mean it literary everything including SegWit, LN and everything else. the only thing they changed was block size. they may not have all of these now but they will add them with a different name eventually. for example Bech32 addresses are already implemented for BCH, there are talks about second layer with a different name than LN!
Well, they have a point, at least: If they implement LN or a similar off-chain network, with a bigger block size, they can claim at least three advantages:
- that it would be easier to open a LN channel, as transaction fees will be smaller;
- that they leave people the choice to always do a (relatively cheap) on-chain transaction even if the network is more congested (e.g. with more than 10 tps) instead of massive pressure to use LN for everything in this situation;
- that if an hub tries to scam their clients broadcasting massively old channel states, there will be enough block space for all victims of this kind of scam to settle their channels fastly.
I still think that BCH fans underestimate the centralization risks of their approach. A more conservative flexible-blocksize currency would have my support (like I wrote several times), but BCH is going way too fast.