My is a non-routing one, and so fee are not a problem. My payments fail despite setting 3% fees. You are a third person here that says there is no problem with payments - but two of you are routing nodes. Perhaps the gag orders are not meant to destroy the LN but rather co-opt it and centralize it, so that it can be censored. Do you run your node as a company?

Yeah, people like the ones running Acinq who pulled out of the US earlier this year. Do you think they pulled out because the fees of their peers rather than due to the perception of a prospective threat from the law enforcement. I'm not blaming them, I'm just trying to figure out how to survive - I have had no fiat income / savings for several years..