youre assuming they dont or arent already , you sound a little protective of those who were born here vs those who werent <| sep |> in some way yes because that will promote using the lightning network where transactions get confirmed fast and are very cheap . but are ruled under a 3 rd party entity that could enforce rules , private information , coin rejections and transaction discrimination . Possible scenario The LN works well and everyone used it because the main chain is completely full and fees are very high only used for big transactions . Then the LN now reject transaction from CoinBase and from XYZ because of enter some reason . They can force company and individual the behave to their law . The very base concept of bitcoin is that NOBODY control it . Moving toward a LN that do most of the transaction is extremely dangerous . That said . having a LN in parallel where you can very small cheap transaction is great . Think about those possible transaction bellow 10 or even fraction of . you may not want them to ' pollute ' the main chain . The idea is not to force anyone to use it . and right now by preventing the block to increase they are forcing us into alternative .