It make sense, hope the experiment was worth the learning experience for you. We just probably need to onboard more shops around us to make, not only LN but bitcoin itself be more known and accepted as a medium or exchage.
what needs to happen is to forget LN, and start afresh from scratch with a new subnetwork for microtransactions using a different payment/network design model
LN too buggy, made to look/be too techy to appear as being secure.. so user experience became too complicated.. and gets worse of a payment/usage experience the more popular it gets(by design(liquidity bottlenecks of route pathways and channel balance))
LN devs whole sponsored strategy, was to create a sub-network for middlemen payment processors to take 'onboarded' coin in. lock them in. and take small fee's for being middlemen (as they cant make profit that way on the bitcoin network.. ) and keep lulled users locked in until their funds are depleted/spent, then release them to refill their balance.. but even that is failing as a strategy
alot of people think i am anti-LN by them thinking i never used LN and just hate it
however i have used LN and battle/bug tested it, ran scenarios to push/find its limits.. read the code, read the bolts, and other userguides and describers.. and looked at many case studies of its usage
..and in my view.. its crap. it fails at many things.. especially the more popular certain route paths get.. or how smaller channel balances get when people need to split funds more to have more route pathways to counter the popular bottlenecked paths
many countries that were lulled into trying it as a backbone/rail for things like remittance have had bad experiences too (the drama of el salvador 2021-2022 prime example)