It feels like BTC is now chasing fiat gains over building a global p2p economy, hoping that lightning network or some other L2 solves the scaling problems for non-custodial transactions.
Still on this aspect, there is no controversies here because both the bitcoin network and the LN are serving the same purpose on helping the users to have a better experience and i don't think each one can have a better application than each other from what they are serving already now, the two will remain relevant as ever because they continue in serving their same purpose.