Lightning has a fundamental graph theory / routing problem. As the number of nodes increase the path between those nodes grows at a nonlinear rate. The internet

Lightning has a fundamental graph theory / routing problem. As the number of nodes increase the path between those nodes grows at a nonlinear rate. The internet has this problem too, which it mainly solves by letting a human put a finger on the scale in a centralized fashion. Lightning network cannot make this tradeoff. It's a simple mathematical problem that we've known about for centuries and it's baffling that anyone thought it would help in the first place.