Core Lightning: A Comparison to Other Implementations

Core lightning is not a monolithic environment where all your lightning needs are being serviced in this entity that is called the node. We need to talk about lightning nodes in general in order to have an intelligent discussion about the different trade-offs. There's always trade-offs, no matter what solution you choose. And I think we're already seeing a world that node doesn't provide all the function. It's very challenging to run end user nodes on mobile devices if you constantly need to query the chain or get updated from Lightning network gossip.