The only catch is that those services reserve the right to close the channel at any time, especially if there isn't much activity.
Sure; they also increase centralization. Creating channels between each other with friends and community members is definitely going to be better for Lightning decentralization. Just wanted to put that out there.
Oh, and I wouldn't recommend Lightning Lab's proprietary products to anyone.
Liquidity ads are far more superior as they take advantage of dual-funding and the gossip protocol; you don't have to install any additional software. This feature is available only in c-lightning, but its developers are heavily working on including it in the official Lightning specification. Although, I don't expect LND devs to implement it quickly once the specs are finalised as that would kill their product.
Good point! It's not a secret that
I'm not a fan of Lightning Labs / LND in general and what they've done against great additions like
BOLT12. I actually meant to dig out liquidity ads, but found 'Lightning Pool' instead, sorry about that!