"They plan to leave the LN channels handling to large node operators, so mostly exchanges. The end users will never run their own nodes and won't ever make an on-chain tx. Yes. The whole "don't trust, verify" was one
giant hoax, they never intended the end users to run their own nodes, all with the final goal of taking out the decentralized aspect of Bitcoin
and making it a closed garden in which a few easy to take over software providers will rule the network."
