The issue with Lightning is that merchant transactions require a 3rd party liquidity provider. In addition every transaction adds financially motivated middle men. Bitcoin is supposed to be P2P in order to prevent financial institutions from taking control of the network.
And I never said it's ideal. I just said that it helps some people. What's your or the other user's problem if they are satisfied by that?
Lightning network is peer-to-peer, not as in Bitcoin, but still. Third party liquidity providers do not gain custody of the peers' cash, so it meets my conditions to be called p2p. It is just less permissionless, the less the number of your channels.