0.5% is achievable, but it doesn't come from automation — it comes from where your channels sit in the network's flow. Nodes earn fees by being on the path between high-volume pairs, which means actively choosing counterparties, monitoring liquidity balance, and rebalancing when channels drain. The tools that automate fee-setting and rebalancing help at the margins, but they can't substitute for the initial positioning decision — so the question is: have you mapped out which routes you actually want to be on before opening channels?