Either the Lightning Network has found a solution to the routing problem which the entire internet has relied upon since 1989 [1], or the LN marketing is disingenuous and the actual implementation will be nothing more than an excuse to extract wealth to centralized payment processor hubs, further distancing Bitcoin from the main design of electronic cash:
"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would
allow online payments to be sent directly from one party
to another without going through a financial institution."