It's interesting to see all these Layer 2 ideas.

I'm still holding out hope that lightning gets better-and-better and maybe we don't really need other scaling solutions. To be fair, Lightning is really complicated to me (if you manage your own channels), but I guess I haven't yet seen a solution that is easier - aside from something like Liquid but then you have centralization issues.

Hopefully stuff like channel factors or other concepts come into play and lightning is able to scale to no end. I'm optimistic on clever devs as I remember lightning from 2-3 years ago - which wasn't nearly as good as it is today. And, Nostr is another example (only a year ago it was nascent, and now it's really something).

It would be nice if wrapped bitcoin went away since it just feels dirty to have "bitcoin" inside other s#!tcoins. :)