What I meant to say was the payment reliability, speed and privacy. Managing lightning channels can be cumbersome at times and especially when your out and about.

You could get a similar UX natively on lightning if you stack LNURL withdraw codes of various denominations in a cashu wallet instead of proofs from a mint. Now you have a set of bearer instruments that you can give to a vendor even though your offline. Obviously you need to run the lightning node ...