Idea is motivating, but so is hard disc rental (known Kairosplanet scam). Mathematically and logically decentralized blockchain cryptocurrency is quite impossible. I say "quite", because solution would be very uneffective. Now You argue, that BTC has done it already. It hasnt. I has told bubbles, bubbles, bubbles... BTC scalability issues are NOT SOLVABLE in this method. It is just not possible to pass ALL INFORMATION TO ALL PARTICIPANTS, when amount of both, information and participants is evergrowing exponentially.
There is nothing new in saying that decentralization is hard. It is known for decades now and has been a topic of discussion a million times here. You somehow want to blame Satoshi for being the mastermind of an evil plan (that i feel has cost you some money at the ATH). The direct and simpler way of looking at it is to realize that the
quest for a peer-to-peer electronic cash system is older than bitcoin. All previous implementations needed a central authority. Bitcoin solved the problem of trust without relying on a central party through its PoW consensus mechanism. That in itself is the culmination of years of work in cryptography and electronic cash systems.
The quest for peer-to-peer electronic cash is not just a technical one but also a socio-economic one. The adoption of bitcoin weakens the control banks and governments have over those who choose to use it. For a long time now, these technical achievements and socio-economic ideals have drowned in the spam posting.
BTC is a scam, illustrated with beautyful words of promising technologies. There will not be (working) lightning network. If it will, its just another level of scamming and it would probably require to deposit Your coins somewhere. And thats not decentralized again.
Telling You one more time: what BTC is meant to be doing, is impossible.
Lightning Network already works, though it is not for everyone yet. bitcoin as a technology is here and has been tested robustly. The debate over mining centralization, privacy features continues as healthily as ever. LN will arrive too and then it will be ready for mass adoption. Whether people wish to use it or not will be up to them. Saying that it is an "intentional scam" is just one of those crazy-pot conspiracy theories. Frustrated, naysaying rants like this one are just one of the defining phenomena of a prolonged bear market.