and this was before vibe coding

compare that weekend to now is what I'm saying. I'll bet that was before 32 baskin robbins of relays, and bunkers, and giftwraps, and MLS, and Cashu, and DVMs and double ratchets, and caching servers, and I don't know what else. bluetooth?

You're also a phenom 🤣 But yes, NIP overload is a real thing. Few are needed.

from the perspective of users it is extremely complicated. I understand that from the perspective of a competent developer it is not complicated, but ideally from the perspective of users it should function relatively equivalently to the very earliest Twitter clients and interface. Extremely minimal and simple. And everything should just work. If the average hears that there are different protocol formats for DMs, you have completely lost the plot and the game