I have 1,000,000 sats right now. Unsettled for almost a year.
I'm glad that your experience is positive and that you are successful. I'm successful, too, but not with lightning. I think have two different self custody wallets / services is great! Most of my corn is on chain and I have lightning to play with. I'd rather pay developers who are doing a good job than to do a shitty job and be salty.
I've been "playing with computers" since 1984. I've used Unix since 1995. Linux since 1999. And I've built and repaired many systems. I'd rather be outside working on the water building things that people can park their boats on or near. Inside computers are for business and that includes a Bitcoin core node, electrum server but not Lightning. Nope. It's, too big and it's a full time job.