Shower thought, are the Lightning Network developers trying to build something that a majority of people in the whole cryptocurrency community doesn’t want? It has been years and years of development, growth of LN is there, but merchants, services, especially exchanges are very SLOW to adopt it. In fact, almost non-existent.
you seem to be not up-to-date. although you're right, the
cryptocurrency community probably wants something else like gambling, lying, loosing money and so on