Each has its trade-off. Also, having multiple options for layer 2 is necessary as to not have a single point of failure for scaling.

both suck

Probably because it's so early. Working on better onboarding resources for those that want to use ecash via cashu.

Cashu, fedimint, etc isn't mean to replace non-custodial BTC or lightning, it's meant to replace custodial BTC. To the extent custodial BTC is needed, these solutions are better in almost every way than traditional "all trust to a single party, no transparency" models.