If I would start now taking payments, I think is better to start accepting LN in a custodial wallet and after I put together 200 or 300$, I would send that to my hodl wallet (non custodial on chain) or I would open my first channel on a easy wallet like phoenix or breez.

option 3: I pay the $20 channel opening fee. The channel goes to my node. User doesn't gotta worry about a thing.

nerd2ninja

how you imagine your success rate with newbies proposing them right now $10-20 fee for non-custodial LN wallet, when e.g. starting with WalletOfSatoshi is free of charge - and for them the functionally is simply the same

option 1:
*"start with free of charge LN wallet, and migrate to non-custodial version when on-chain fees are back to acceptable"*

option 2:
force them to $10-20 starting fee just to keep away from custodians (but don't cry there is no LN adoption)

jk_14

bitcoin

Network congestion will turn out to be good for bitcoin adoption

For me, getting away from custodians is the selling point that gets people on Bitcoin in the first place so that flow makes no sense.