Some brave people with channels already open on the Lightning Network. From 0 at the beginning of 2018 to 429 nodes this morning. Look at all those payment channels! 1032...
It feels like a chain floating in the blockchain. Or more like another dimension that is invisible when you reside in the traditional blockchain. When the complexity of the new approaches that of the old, will we just float another chain on top again?
Will we have a multiverse of blockchains popping in and out of existence like a quantum soup? Just like physics can't ever find reality, human economics will never settle on one.