Lightning Network: how to trace the path between the sending and receivin nod

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Node discovery relays and some people argue that it cannot be done and it must be well complicated to calculate the
hops by the time you have to deal with fees and the reliability of intermittent nodes plus ensuring the nodes each have
sufficient balance in the ledgers to carry out the transaction.

I can only imagine the amount of code needed to make this happen so once again as was the case with mining coins
that lead on to CPU-Wars it seems to me like the solution is worse then the initial problem and from a performance
perspective this would be slow if hub/banks were all Alice, Bob, Peter and Paul

Every node for himself just to keep some academic dip sticks happy without more specialized nodes looks like a big mess
to me but if they want to proceed down this lightning route then maybe the need a cluster of routing servers (DNS Type thing)
with plenty of redundancy built in to the system.

Time here is critical because a route could be found but milliseconds later the balance sheets has changed and the funds are
no longer available to carry out the transaction and lets also remember we now have some centralization and transaction won't be in
this wonderful magic things called the public block-chain.

No wonder it taking them years to program this thing and its so hard to understand