Lightning is great. At the moment, not something that will underpin most of the economic activity on the internet. Most of the soft fork proposals right now have to do with making lightning easier to use or making it easier to build things like lightning and ark.

I'm asking how much are we willing to change bitcoin to allow things like lightning and ark to be easy to use.

Would you accept potentially increased miner centralization (side chains)?

Would you accept complexity risk (new op codes to allow more complicated txs so that we can have offline lightning receives, channel factories, utxo sharing)?