No, what I mean is that it does not work as "intended" in that the routing algo has yet to be completed. Overall low liquidity on the network combined is a different issue altogether.

It does work as projected by critics, in that it is not a flatly distributed network aka "decentralized" in this sense, even though it clearly acts as a decentralized network in other ways. This makes liquidity in particular channels and with particular nodes an issue. Increasing overall liquidity will not solve this, but probably greatly mitigate any issues that may arise from it on a day by day basis.

Don't get me wrong though, LN has interested me for years and even when I'm critical of how it has been pushed as the ultimate scaling solution (well first it was SegWit, before that incremental blocksize increases, then a single increase that got smaller and smaller etc) I'm still not saying that it's useless. It's just not what is needed to scale.

BCH will (hopefully) never add SegWit, but it can add other maliability fixes and what not. SegWit isn't the only way if you really want to implement more advanced features. But first priority will be scaling per the original Bitcoin design.