Does it say that Jesse Powell be implementing Lightning for Kraken soon, or is it just an article?
In December, they
announced that the Lightning Network support was expected to be available in the first half of 2021. It looks like they are still working on it.
Exchanges should start becoming some of the main liquidity providers, and client-side UI providers for the Lightning Network, and bring it to a higher point of growth.
They probably don't feel any pressure to do so because: 1) The transaction fees have been extremely low for quite some time now. 2) Even if any large exchange implements Lightning late, there still will be a lot of people willing to open a channel with their node.
I believe there will come a point when we will truly sorry for the developers building Lightning, because they might be working veey hard for something that no one really wants. How many years has it been in development? Everyone is throwing money in shitcoin DeFi.