Nobody really knows, but I hope I can pay most of my daily expenses in Bitcoin, either in LN or in third layer in five years from now. It kinda sounds reasonable to me.

Your are looking on the wrong path... Bitcoin is not asset. Is money. Simply money.

this comment won't be popular, but Bitcoin is going to see decreased adoption due to its lack of privacy and fungibility. it has already been dethroned as the king of the dark web, and I only expect this trend to continue as it falls victim to increased regulatory capture and fatf travel rule restrcitions, surveillance and address blacklisting. in an era of increasing tyranny, privacy and fungibility will priceless

I'm bullish on Lightning as it is the first step towards global adoption.