I am brave, but feeling unsure. Having live, public LN channels, I feel a much greater vulnerability to loss of funds from timeouts. I think you may be ultimately correct about your position of running only private nodes with private channels and route hinting. My fear is that this will lead to balkanization of capital, and the emergent cartels to protect it. We need public routing capital, but this is looking increasingly like a large service providers are the only players with the risk appetite to burn sats.

And then my feeling about building L3 technologies on an unstable L2. It seems such a regression to have to deal with on-chain dogshit spam from a decade ago while folks are building out entire new cryptosystems to encode satoshi-denominated value.

I think the value if anything has shown allegiances - like other controversial social attacks against Bitcoin, we see where exactly who is backing whom.

Your resolve to Bitcoin seems absolute, but i can tell this has rattled you too. I'm sure we have both seen many a battle onchain in our time, and this battle will fail for the spammers, as all others have, in time.