Is Liquid Bitcoin underrated as a L2?

I ran a lighting node for about a year with several BTC of liquidity and besides being a losing venture between opening/forced closure fees the overall experience of sending payments is a bit cumbersome to say the least and a massive risk for having that type of funds on a hot wallet..
I think the average user will not be in a position to have much liquidity on their own node and end up using custody wallets.

I haven't messed around with Liquid BTC yet, but it seems like a much more practical solution for 99.9% of users for day to day payments compared to the lightning network. I guess the only argument against liquid I can think of is the lack of decentralization with the entities that confirm transactions. But if a majority of LN users are using a single entity custody wallet I see the quorum of LBTC network as a much more decentralized solution and users can also secure their funds on a hardware wallet.

What say you lot?