Do you have a rebuttal of any substance or just personal attacks on the author?
The irony of a bitcoiner accusing someone else of drinking the Kool aid. Lots of people participated and made money in Madoff's scheme for decades too.
You'll notice that he refuses to address any aspect of the and doesn't understand graph theory as much as he's pretending to, as noted in the top comment on the post.
It is a logical fallacy to focus on who the author is. You either can point out where the error in his reasoning is, or not. Because it sounded pretty convincing to me: to participate in routing a payment you need to have at least the paid amount tied in the lightning network, which favors people with a lot of spare cash, who can have more channels open, and process more payments.
In short, if it didn't (it does), then we've proven P = NP and the very foundation of Bitcoin itself crumbles.
Self custody of bitcoin is not self custody of wealth. Not your fiat not your wealth.