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financially motivated noncompliant nodes should appear
These exist already and at this moment LN is what makes a private Bitcoin setup feasible. At least on an individual scale. There is more than enough liquidity outside of the walled garden exchanges to spend a couple M private sats at once from a single-use channel.
Its no use if you need to wash those 2000 whole coins you just stole of course. But that's good. It means that LN in its current form protects the vulnerable individual more than any attackers. Less reason to attack it because of that.
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You can make this argument for Bitcoin L1. If you don't use the underlying censorship resistant technology, you can be censored.
Non-custodial lightning is pretty good for this because there is incentive to connect to unreachable peers. If compliant nodes won't connect with you as darknet merchant, financially motivated noncompliant nodes should appear.
It's slow moving, and hard to see when you aren't using the tech regularly, but lightning is making strides in receiver privacy and we all anticipate an upgrade to PTLCs eventually, which should make surveillance much harder than it already is, assuming the network can make it through puberty.
Bitcoin is censorship resistant by nature of it incentivizing miners to not censor. While lightning is not perfect, it is the similar in this regard, and it's generally what I look for in systems claiming censorship resistance: does the system, at a fundamental level, pay people to look the other way?