Fun fact: Joe Nakamoto blocked me for recommending the exact same thing as he's recommending here! Very politely, too.
He was recommending the fully-custodial Wallet of Satoshi instead. He only mentions Phoenix because he's talking to someone who will immediately shut down any custodial suggestions.
These people are snakes, grifters, and gaslighters.
Lots of people see value in the Bitcoin Lightning Network. That's fine. But don't listen to anyone who unequivocally says "Lightning works".
There is one group of people that actually use it every day, Podcasting 2.0 and it works, but it has a lot of problems.
Yeah, though it would work much better if they used a different technology even.
It's best as an institution-to-institution settlement layer.