I totally get it, it just seems pretty premature to want to try and massage the fee market with DC, It's the same narrative pushed with ordinals and I don't buy it. BTC held up reasonably well last bull market with LN and Liquid around granted a lot of BTC was paper shit sitting on FTX and other rehyphotication exchanges but still the settlement wasn't too bad for users and miners were going balls to the wall scaling operations.

Some over-invested and got rekt, but that's not our problem some more efficient miner eventually takes over those assets

In a world where on-chain fees are 100, 200, 1000 sats per vbyte then DCs make a lot of sense but right now I just don't see the point of pushing something where I don't see demand, it's like those China ghost cities, some of them eventually do get filled but the majority are sitting empty

Can the requests be written and live on signet for messing around and pull the trigger later, sure! I just think LN has a lot more juice to squeeze before DCs is really something that requires an activation

but that's one nodes opinion

The flexibility to test concepts and market demand in real-time let's say a zcash chain is spun up, you can peg in and start using that, it can support a community of apps that want privacy tech natively and they can happily live and trade in that world without diluting the bitcoin network effect and F'ing around with shitcoins.

Not to say there couldn't be rug pulls built here but that's what the user has to decide, leaving the base chain for any L2 requires accepting risk, LN has it Liquid has it, and statisticians have it, just the nature of the game.

If it fails and there's no market demand, people just peg out and move back on-chain or to the next drive chain idea but the base chain just soldiers on.

They can also be a response to bandwidth issues, if on-chain fees are high and slowing down LN, drivechains can come in and provide liquidity and reduce the competition for block space on main chain so fees even out quicker when demand spikes

I also see use for drivechains in being able to build custom chains, could be something simple like bigger blocks and you can I don't know stuff ordinals in there or run application-specific chains like a Bitnames DNS/namecoin thing.

Just see it as a place to F around and find out and let the BTC liquidity flow where the ideas captivate the audience, could be good ideas, could be bad ideas, but it attracts developers and VCs to experiment in Bitcoin. You bring the funding and the brain power into the ecosystem instead of them wasting time and resources building another solana or EOS etc

You have a good point there, I didn't think about that level of adversary, seriously still feel like we're in the begining stages, damn the fact that this thing is half a trillion dollars and is a legal tender in a country.

I don't think i'm ready for the big time yet, but I guess this next cycle is coming and if this thing sits over a trillion and keeps going you're starting to step on toes of a class that doesnt fight fair