Lightning Network capacity has increased ~35% so far this year. That means a staggering 0.007% of Bitcoin is available for use on the "preferred scaling solution"

There's been a resurgence recently in the lie that says Bitcoin Cash is superfluous because even in the preposterous hypothetical situation where somebody wants to use their crypto instead of holding it, the Lightning Network meets that need.

This is false for a lot of reasons, but rather than expounding them I can just point to the bottom line, which is that nobody is using it. The LN is so terrible at its only purpose that people would rather pay the insane fees on the BTC base layer than jump through the ridiculous hoops required to use the LN.

https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-capacity