Soul Reaver on Nostr: Well yea that's correct, you'd ideally need enough BTC as big as your channel size, ...

Well yea that's correct, you'd ideally need enough BTC as big as your channel size, and that's monetary wall/requirement. I already keep some BTC and I work in tandem w/ a CEX to open channels and move the lightning sats back to my CEX to retrieve the amount to HODL personally, and I understand that's not something everybody do/prefer. And I receive payment in lighting and sell things, not sure I'd go through all of it just as a hobby w/o that given the requirement of learning all that and channel opening fees (although they're much cheaper than I thought they'd be in right mempool environment).