Anyone that will do serious stuff with lightning want bolt12. Today is spark, tomorrow is ark, why exposing all these wired terminology without knowing if there will be there in 2 years instead of having a real common layer that pay from everything to everything.
and now you have sonar that is bolt12 compatible :)
Naaaa! bolt12 as a standard protocol layer is better! you have also proof of payment and you can do a lot of nice stuff without 'trust me bro', I am sick of broken payment method while now that we have finally something that looks universal
**Sending money should feel like sending a message**
You open a banking app. You find them, or type an IBAN, or discover you are on different payment apps entirely. Maybe you ask them to send you a request first. Somewhere in there, you copy a long string from one app and paste it into another, and hope you got all of it.