LN is a lot of things
but "elegant" isnt a word I'd use personally.
the advantage of just scaling horizontally is we don't need to study the ALL the new security tradeoffs.
its just a copy with some tweaks and there are some bridges in/out..
it'd be cool if i could pop open your note when im typing a reply and forget what you said
ln definitely jank, nodes as single points of failure isn't a good design, there needs to be a cluster of nodes at a minimum to have some redundancy, among other problems