Glad to see there are more people having a hard time wrapping their head around all this. Guess we have to just keep learning!
Like your TLDR; on the lightning network :D
If you've followed Brian's posts at all and his trials and tribulations with running a Hive >><< BTC bridge across the lightning network you'd know that the LN is a complete shitshow full of grand delusion. It's complicated. It's expensive. It's not sustainable. It scales up instead of out: It's centralized. It's buggy and glitches often. It can be risky, and there are new known threat vectors like cycling attacks.
@edicted is like an LLM which has absorbed everything I've written on Lightning and is able to turn this out and he's pretty much spot on 🤣