If the majority of the network ends up charging as much as LNbig.com or even more then the LN will be mostly known for instant and more anonymous small transactions. Do you think that a $0.12 fee for a $30 transaction being way too high is an over-exaggeration? Consider that there could be longer routes consisting of nodes with similar fee settings. Still, I do agree that nodes should earn more than they do by default, because they might need to rebalance their channels at some point. As far as I remember, someone proposed to increase the default fee settings (the basefee from 1 sat to 5 sat and the feerate from 1 to 500).
Makes you wonder if there are going to be two "types" of node connectivity.
One is going to be from larger nodes like lnbig.com to smaller nodes for general spending between people
The other is going to be to places like ln.pizza and bitrefill for people who are going to be spending it on "stuff".
Still have not finished resetting up my node due to lack of time but IIRC the few payments that did go through my node went to coingate and no place else.
A lot of people opened channels to me and I had a bunch that I opened but all the spending went though coingate even though there was enough liquidity in other ones for the amount. So I'm guessing that coingate was the final destination.
Can't prove that, just looks like it.
-Dave