You can send bitcoins to anywhere in the world, permitionless, borderless and pseudo-anonymous within 10 minutes. T
I guess OP is thinking more of day-to-day payments, such as buying a cup of coffee. For that, waiting 10 minutes
on average is garbage, because you can spend more than an hour sometimes, and we'll see if LN solves it. For a digital gold it is very good, in that case you can wait 10 minutes or an hour if you want to send $500M to Japan.