Given the importance of bitcoin futures, this is not good or bad news, actually is completely insignificant and therefore does not affect on crypto market. As stated in the article this decision is very likely to have a connection with "growing lack of interest in Bitcoin", and "very low volatility".
Lightning Network is great achievement for bitcoin, but probably it will pass a few more years before it becomes applicable to broad masses. We have SegWit for some time, and fact that it is not so complicated as LN, but still many users do not know what is it all about, shows us that things are developing pretty slowly. LN is just one thing, though very important, but can not change what most people are interested in, and that's the price.