V4v.app is incredibly slick for such a bare-bones website/DApp.
With that being said, I've used it numerous times (you can check my wallet history for verification) both to and from Lightning (testing and for actually sending one-way transfers) without any issue. Alby only makes it easier to use from the Lightning side (although I had used BlueWallet for my own tests).
I think that having a Leo-Lightning Bridge would only further reduce friction when converting out of $LEO into other tokens. As Hive, in general, is less developed than some other blockchains that have huge VC money backing their development, there is room for growth in the back end for making swaps easier and providing more options to do so. LeoDEX is definitely rough in places, BeeSwap has decent liquidity for HIVE but that's really its only purpose. SimpleSwap now requires KYC - so that's a no for me.
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