Lightning: it's not become more difficult as much as more expensive. The spike in BTC fees which lasted a month caused a lot of people who were messing about with Lightning nodes to lose significant funds when channels "force closed" and they paid out big fess. Those fees were often much larger than any money they'd made routing transactions.
It also made it much harder to economically run a routing node. I'm lucky in that I am actually using Lightning to make real transactions, not relying on others to transfer through my node.
Overall this meant that average fees went up (they're still very low compared to BTC main chain transactions or ETH) but they went up.
I'm about 1m HP short right now. Mostly the return proposal went up.
Ok, yeah I remember you posted this issue with Lightning channels before and then the fees issue. But like coding/building has not become more difficult then. Got it 👍🏻
Thanks for clarifying!
I haven't had to do anything much with my actual lightning interacting code for a good long time. The issue as around the manual management of which channels I have open and how to set the fees on my node so that I have sats in the right places to both receive and send out.
With the removal of a couple of options of low fee destinations, that got a bit more complex and requires more thought and planning.