LN is a bit like a
spoke-hub: instead of making a connection from anywhere to anywhere, everyone makes only a few connections.
That's just plain wrong. The Lightning Network is completely distributed at its core.
It may be right for some
services built on top of the Lightning Network, such as mobile wallet providers easing the flow by providing a gossip source or even a custodial wallet.
But that must not be assimilated to
the Lightning Network as defined. There were some previous models based on an *actual* hub-and-spoke architecture for payment channels, and they are very different from the Lightning Network.