Bitcoin Lightning Network: Could Intermediate Nodes Be Allowed To Decide The Route? aantonop

nodes are using a very trivial source routing algorithm could interesting metrics be used for deciding the routing such as maximization of privacy minimization of hops etc?
A little over a year ago, the three Lightning Network implementation teams joined forces to work on a common specification for the protocol stack. Now that both that specification and the three implementations are becoming stable and usable, it is time to look forward: to further improve the protocol, to add new features, to simplify, and to fix downsides.