show me one core dev calling it "unusable."
How about Antoine Riard as I wrote above?
LN processed $2.3B in Aug 2025 (Wallet of Satoshi data)
That's the waste of resources I'm talking about.
It's a gross design flaw by how LN works. More funds sitting there doesn't mean that someone is able to transact $2.3B.
Instead you'd have to split your funds to however much each channel has until you exhaust it.
Contrary to bitcoin, the more decentralized LN is, the harder it becomes to use.