Yes

Thanks to Start9 (bipcoin supporters) that are pushing fear into their users to close their channels...

Yes , but... https://blossom.primal.net/cbac634e092f1f38e6fe3042c95608339a91770b4c540f29579b012fef2794b3.gif

A lot of FUD scaring the plebs into turning off their nodes.

Yes.

Hacking fears have people shutting off nodes plus people like start9 advising closing channels ahead of bip110.

Yes, "lightning" has been more like "electrophoretic charge diffusion" of late

Aren't people shutting down their nodes because of the potential fork?

nostr:nprofile1qqsw9n8heusyq0el9f99tveg7r0rhcu9tznatuekxt764m78ymqu36csxjejf does it clear if you raise the fee limit, or is it failing even with room to pay? route failures that show up everywhere at once usually mean liquidity moved rather than anything being down.

i haven't had any failed payment. i can't even remember the last failed payment i had.

anecdotally,yes. but my node fucks up all the time so

This has always been a risk for LN.