Yea after a couple years with Lightning, i have to say the big blockers of 2017 were not so wrong with their arguments ( heresy!! ). Selfhosted Lightning is unusable for normies, all thats left is a third party hosted wallet = with no control over your coins, zero privacy (the wallet company knows all your transactions and will rat you out when the feds come). So yea, much less excitement about Lightning than in 2017