Check out &#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin sometime for users complaining about transactions fees :)
(Actually more the threat that some day there will be significant fees)<p>Unfortunately Bitcoin has often been oversold as being &quot;free&quot;; but if transactions are free, and there&#x27;s a fixed number of coins to mine, who pays for this whole network in 30 years?<p>The motivation behind the design of LN is to minimize the number of transactions which need to be globally verified (which has a cost) while still adhering to the general model of Bitcoin (decentralized, pseudonymous, etc).<p>You&#x27;re right though that with tx fees being on the order of ~0.05 USD, you don&#x27;t really need LN yet.  I&#x27;ve long assumed that fees would become significant, pushing out some use cases.  That&#x27;s already happened with e.g satoshidice.