LN now has routing, so you can open a single channel with a well-connected node and transact with everyone. They will charge you a fee for this, but it is on the order of 1/100th as much as a regular bitcoin transaction.
Do you think that the only thing that matters for crypto is speed and fees? You don't think trust/security/decentralization have any value?
Bitcoin chooses trust and security above everything else, as it should. Then you can have layers on top where you transact at the speed of network packets.
https://www.coindesk.com/nanos-network-flooded-spam-nodes-ou...