I used to think the LN was a problem in itself but now I believe the LN was first of all meant to gain time until 1. Liquid gets a chance to be adopted in the market as an alternative by lack of options, creating a literally banking system, and 2. the mining reward halves to the point the blockchain could be "Satoshi VIsioned", at which point the plan to decrease the blocksize to force high fees could be materialized.

Closing a circle... by force.