Nah Aqua never stored your Bitcoin as lightning, it was always stored either on chain or as Liquid BTC.
When you send liquid to lightning in Aqua it swaps the liquid to lightning first & sends it to ...
So it is like they abstracted away the functionality, so that users do not need to look under the hood, but that created a confusion in those who expect to be able to. Happens to me all the time.
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