That being said, a few quick thoughts:

It’s less important that lightning is non-custodial since you can withdraw to the blockchain almost instantly, and if you deal in small amounts. That being said, it’d be great if non-custodial wallets could implement something like an LNURL. That’d make lightning self custody instantly more scalable. It’s a problem that needs to be solved.

Bitcoin still beats the US Gov in the end, and if it takes 70+ years, I’ll still be proud to have been a part of it.

It comes down to the fact that it’s a finite, scalable, immutable store of value, and the bitcoin network is global. It’s here to stay, which means in the end, it wins.

The 200 WMA says a lot, and so does the hash rate over time.