The question is, will the mining pools allow a software upgrade. They don't seem to be interested in what's best for Bitcoin, just short-term profitability.
Don't confuse Segwit with Segwit2x. Segwit was already activated on the network months ago. Technically, the Lightning Network didn't even require Segwit, but all Lightning code to date was written around it because it addressed transaction malleability. The miners didn't support Segwit2x because they're rational and realized that the community didn't support it.
So it works a bit like masternodes, saves the ownership of the coins until it can be written on the blockchain.
I guess you could see it like that. Coins are locked up while you have payment channels open. LN nodes are similar to masternodes in that they collect fees to facilitate LN transactions. It could have a similar economic effect: coins are locked up in LN --> less liquidity/supply --> price increases.
That's the point of this post, actual transactions happened on the live network.
Any guess when we'll see publicly available wallets?