If it's that limited then why is it being pushed?
This is not some sort of pure philosophical debate, people stand to gain or lose billions. Why is anything money-related being done? Probably money. Not that I'm above it, with that much at stake who knows what I'd do, but the answer is still money. Egos play into it, but that's about the same thing.There are customers they pay for gods or services. There are merchants and they provide gods or services. => Customer only pay. Merchant only accept bitcoins.
You as customer will be able to open only 1 channel with LN-PROVIDER to send bitcoins to 1,000,000 merchants. Merchant will be ablle to open 1 channel with LN-PROVIDER to accept payments from ALL customers.
Can You understand now ?