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It isn't Bitcoin's companion protocols like Lightning Network nor Liquid Network that currently has more widespread off-chain uses of BTC itself, but ETH, a rival altcoin, according to this article. https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-has-become-bitcoins-top-off-chain-destination (For an idea of what is an off-chain transaction, check out this link.) Shouldn't Bitcoin's native protocols be the ones to have preeminence over other alternatives? Why have this happened? Does the Bitcoin Lightning Network and others not performing as well as ETH's 'tokenized BTC', or is Ethereum's flexibility proving to be the greater asset? Apparently, it's both, if the article is interpreted this way. Now that Ethereum has made it apparent that it is the users' better choice when it comes to off-chain applications, will we see some changes and improvements on the Lightning Network in the following days, or will they continue on in their current path of "a narrower focus of improving the speed and privacy of small and large off-chain bitcoin transactions" as the article says? We'll see.