Fun fact: 2 years ago I've created also a private corporate LN, for a small company. It was a testing pilot with a school.

I used LNbits and a bunch of simple LND private nodes. Only the company's node was connected with a single public channel to the rest of the public LN. But there were other 5 small private nodes, connected to each others with a private channel, using 0-conf trusted channels, that were never confirmed onchain, but working perfectly fine to send/receive sats between these private nodes.

Also LNbits was used for internal use between users in a school that didn't have to go out in the whole public LN.

And that could be easily expanded as a private LN bank, like a separate LN. All transactions are not even visible on any explorer or blockchain, those channels could stay forever open. This was an experiment of creating a bitcoin circular economy and how to use it. And wasn't even necessary of any liquidity management for basic users, not necessary to use any other bullshit Spark.

But yeah people are not willing to test these WORKING solutions, they just eat the shit posted by podcasters and complain that "LN is hard to use for average user..."

You as a long term bitcoiner have the duty to teach all these average users how to use it properly and help them building solutionns.