You're a good dude man, appreciate your thoughts and your words. The saddest part is this:
even if we have a solution for something that Lightning isn’t ready for, the average person still doesn’t care about Bitcoin
All the issues you laid out are indeed issues, but ones that can be worked passed. But changing consumer behavior (even amongst bitcoiners - ie, spending bitcoin) isn't a solvable problem a small startup can tackle within the small timeline they have to work with. Even thinking and talking about new problems that align with us but are more broader than just Bitcoin is challenging and against the status quo.
Your redesigns, pivots, and refocuses have been admirable and no matter what you're doing (with bitcoin or otherwise), hope you get much success, you're on a great life track.