This topic reminds me of my debates with franky1, but this topic is on steroids. BUT let’s make it simple. Newbies, whatever the trolls say to disinform you, whatever the trolls post to gaslight you, YOU only need to know that those coins in channels are signed transactions that have not been broadcasted and included in the blockchain yet. No one in Lightning is sending something worthless in the network. They are literally BITCOINS.
(until you learn about turbo and other services that open channels with msat balance without the 6confirm funding lock)
(which cannot then commit to anything because the 'locking' utxo is not actually confirmed to have a block number.)
but hey, you can instead believe the utopia of network maps being always full and uptodate of all details to not need to check nodes.
you could instead believe that everyone is honest and symbiotically wants whats best for you.
you could believe its permissionless (even though it requires TWO signatures(someone elses authorisation))
you could instead believe that LN is 100% successful. and all other utopian adverts are true. but then you are putting yourself at risk