How did you weather the large number of force-closes during the fee-hikes caused by Ordinal bullshit?

-> Oh it was ugly for us as well. We improved our HTLC monitoring environment and mitigated the issue a bit, but still it sucked a big time and we lost some money due to FCs, too. I was crying in my heart lol

How do you see the future of running a LN routing node for amateurs? Will it become solely suitable for people doing it full-time job?

-> Seems it's becoming more and more of the latter now.

On the other hand, it's still not very professional just yet and individual node runners still have hope for profitable routing experience in my opinion. Tools around automative channel creations or liquidity management via different swap services need to improve further though.