Lightning network isn't the only scaling solution, but its more of a stacked solution, yes most people going off-chain are using Lightning, but there is also the liquid network, a federated system, of which there could be several liquid networks if the market deemed it worthwhile.
Since Liquid is a fork of bitcoin it's compatible with lightning so you can establish a LN channel with liquid meaning you're broadcasting your channel open with liquid and not using block space
Lightning will also have channel factories which can be used with wumbo channels so it will require less touching of the base chain
Then you have additional layers like eCash/Fedimints and RGB that are running on top of Lightning which provides even more transaction volume optionality
That's not to mention the work done on drivechains and statechains that will all be compatible with lightning
Yes at some point bitcoin will have to increase blockspace but all these solutions are buying time for hardware to catch up and to ensure that when that time comes it does not prune nodes from the network
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