I don't view LN as having anything to do with bitcoin because it all happened off chain. The benefit of the consensus protocol is lost entirely since consensus is only reached once LN transaction chains are sent back to the bitcoin network and eventually make it into the blockchain. LN transactions rely on am entirely different network of transactions, validators, and (de)centralization tactics.

What are the benefits you see in LN that are worth the tradeoffs of abandoning bicoin's main chain consensus protocol?