To mitigate potential issues, participants generally pre-sign a refund transaction as an insurance policy against collaborative failures, securing their ability to reclaim funds.

The problem arises with the possibility of transaction ID malleation—if the txid can be altered after participants have signed off on a transaction, it could render the pre-signed refund transaction useless. This vulnerability opens a door for malicious parties to blackmail others into paying to release their funds. Such a use case is present in the Lightning Network's interactive-tx transactions, particularly in dual-funding and splicing scenarios, as detailed in the lightning/bolts pull request.

To understand the issue, consider a scenario where Alice and Bob collaborate to fund a Lightning channel without sharing the complete previous transaction (prevtx). Both add inputs using tx_add_input messages that should contain only Segregated Witness (segwit) compatible scriptPubKeys to prevent malleability. However, if Alice secretly uses a non-segwit scriptPubKey, she can sign and publish the funding transaction with a changed txid, rendering Bob's commitment transactions invalid and trapping his funds.

Segwit v1, specified in BIP 341, aims to address this by including the amounts and scriptPubKeys of all inputs in the signature hash, binding signatures to the specific inputs used. Nonetheless, dropping the prevtx entirely from the process is not yet safe for all cases. Participants are only fully protected if they contribute at least one input using segwit v1 themselves.

In conclusion, within the Lightning Network framework, it is advisable to omit the prevtx field only under certain conditions: either when performing a splice transaction of a taproot channel, where there is a shared input utilizing taproot requiring both parties' signatures, or when every participant adds at least one taproot input to the transaction. This ensures that all inputs are bound to the transaction and protected against malleation, safeguarding the interests of all involved.