Re: How are we going to beat the reptilians when monkeys are kicking our ass?
I've always heard, high fees will drive people to LN, not really that true
People who say either doesn't use LN much or know LN well enough. High fee also affect cost to open/close channel. And as i say stated many time, people who rarely make transaction won't notice benefit from LN.
Prepare to get pitchforked for this! 
Pitchforks are only for those who demand blocksize increase today, especially an unrealistically huge increase. I think it's pretty much a conensus among everyone that there will be an increase at some point, when storage will be much more affordable. It could be in 10 years or 20 years or even more, but technology will surely progress. But this doesn't cancel the fact that on-chain capacity will always be small, compared to transaction volumes of even a small country.
Between 2017 and now, technology still progress at fast pace. So i'd say there's no need pick pitchfork for those who want block size increase today, unless they mention ridiculous high limit.