Can the miners make more money processing transactions, or from selling BTC at a higher price? You seem to be ignoring the latter
You do realize that BTC block reward will keep halving , until the miners receive ZERO Block Reward,
at that time they will only be able to survive off of the transfers fees, that you want then to give away to a competing service.
That's right , LN is not part of BTC , LN is a service that will directly compete with them.
What is funny is that all of the LN Shrills , think the PoW miners are stupid enough to fall for it.
As far as your fake promises of the BTC Price increasing forever,
you ignore 1 very important economic condition
price-out-of-the-market
(idiomatic) To charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it.
He's pricing out of the market, asking for $100,000 for that shack!
BTC has already priced out of the micropayments , this latest Price & Fee increase is starting to Price BTC out of many foreign markets.