As far as I understood, the lightning network is accessible only through intermediary wallets that have both the on-chain and lightning feature. In other words, it is not possible to send sats directly from a base layer wallet, such as Bitcoin Core, to a lightning-only wallet, like Alby.
They do not have to have both LN and layer 1
BTC. There are some wallets that are only LN. But the majority of LN wallets do support on chain too.
Is it possible to implement a lightning network feature on Bitcoin Core?
Possible? Yes with a complete re-write of it's functionality and a lot of bloat. So, no it's not going to happen. Not should it, there is a lot more to LN then just a wallet. You need to setup channels and some other things. Core is just for holding / moving
BTC.
-Dave