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Locking is not a stupid thing to say. In fact, it's quite precise. A channel is money locked in a 2-of-2 multisig, where you do not have one of the keys. Your funds are only unlocked if your counter-party cooperates, or after the CSV delay.
Almost 2 years ago I wrote (#486306) on SN about LN topology future and made this simple scheme:
Please stop saying that stupid thing. You are not "locking" but allocating liquidity to a payments market.
And LN is not formed only b y public routing nodes, but also with private nodes.
Wrong. Take advantage of them or LSPs... they are there to serve you and your private node. They are just liquidity providers.
Centralization comes only from Spark / Ark / Liquid that if they get too much use, and became main networks used for payments, than we are fucked.
You can have a total invisible private payment network with LN if you want, as I explained here: #843264. In fact is what Spark is trying to do, but it promote it as public... trying to fool gullible users.
So as long as the LN protocol is used properly, it could be several private networks used between small and large communities, for bitcoin payments. And you will not even see them.