BTC will never scale. it now does 300,000 transactions to 500,000 daily transactions = it will never scale up. It is much better for large value movements. Much like a 10,000 USD bond.
I'd say don't sleep on Lightning or layer 2 solutions in general. They're definitely not in their best form right now, but there's definitely progress.
If you get those solutions to work I will be impressed.
But read my signature I am much more down with a multiple coin solution then Lightning or layer 2.
I feel that Lightning or layer 2 will not work fairly for miners.
"The original idea was turning power into coins"
If Lightning and Layer 2 fully is worked in I feel miners will be all industrial. All large scale which is not what I see as best.
If it where best the world would work well and it sure as fuck works like crap for 99.5% of the people.