Sorry, I was thinking of https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair (probably because of the letters a c q)
Channel monitoring will be outsourced. I did not claim everything was finished, but it is far from pie-in-the-sky.
Off-chain scaling is the only way to scale bitcoin as a day-to-day payment system, and always has been. This must have been clear to everybody from the start.
This project is a web development tool and has nothing to do with crypto.
Back to your comments on the state of LN development, I would not call it robust when the current implementation requires every client to monitor the blockchain 24/7 just in case a node attempts to cheat the system, and there is a good chance the cheater will succeed when the settlement layer becomes congested. For now they are very much pie in the sky.