>It's an especially big problem given the fact that the vast majority of lightning payments are routed through lightning nodes operated by centralized cryptocurrency exchanges.

I'd love to know how you came to believe this. Due to Lightning's design, there is no way to know how payments are routed, so it seems clear that you're either misinformed or lying.

> That's not even getting into the abysmal incentive structure node operators face.

Such as... getting paid for your capital by routing payments? Oh no, so abysmal!