NIP Bloat. - Implementation possibilities are specd with less and less consideration for each other. - many overlap in functionality but none are removed or deprecated for “backwards compatibility”. - Some old school devs pull weight and don’t wanna change. - some younger devs have no patience for discussion and “patient” integration of “good” ideas. - devs are burnt out with the “bureaucracy” of maintaining a swamp of standards. - nips are treated as standalone “islands” serving single use cases. - inconsistency and inoperability creep across clients and relays, as gate keepers “give up”. - Users become disillusioned with “the dream” of decentralized cooperation, as nostr dies a slow death due to dwindling adoption.