I do the same. I believe that eventually, especially with politicians like Mr Trump who are hugely anti-government, people won't care and the benefits to 'using' Bitcoin on Lightning will be so obvious, so overwhelming, and so profitable for businesses that people will use it anyway.

I believe that Lightning right now at least is not the issue. The issue is... well lack of education.

The commenters from major newspapers, even 'high-up' ones don't know anything about Bitcoin except that it's like memecoins and because of that they're not ready for anything else, especially something like Lightning. They generally believe that Bitcoin 'doesn't exist' really and how can you 'spend' that which doesn't exist...