Yep, it's the channel opening phase.

Still worth it for dissidents and people looking to donate to dissidents though....

It protects both donors and recipients by generating stealth addresses on the fly.

Convincing 'truckers' or other dissidents to setup and manage a linux a server and install a lightning node + tor, or install a btcpayserver using only xpub is really not gonna happen.

Just download the wallet, generate the paynym, receive anonymous donations.