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In my ignorant opinion, it's antiquated and unnecessary only further obfuscates the issues of the centralized architecture of the whole of the internet.

This. I think the important part, is that every switch, router, network adapter, kernel driver, operating system relies on the technology of the IP stack. Devices that old can and still do work, and IMO aren't likely to change. I think any position that suggests scrapping, or bypassing an entire standard just creates a new competing standard. I understand why most thinkers hold the position of "the entire system is fucked we have to bypass it" but without bloody revolution that basically never happens. The systems that were built weren't built with the idea they would be used for evil, like most things. I don't think we need to scrap IP and DNS and literally every system that's burned into it's hardware (literally in the form of roms or fpgas). As said, we can quickly decentralize DNS but it's going to take a lot of actors to build the network. So yes I think we should be fighting IANA, ICAAN, and federal governments. But even then we don't need their permission. Think about this. If I set up a DNS server and nostr plebs add it to thier PC. I could harbor anyone I wanted to. It's about where the information is stored and who owns it. Could we add extra layers to DNS to secure it, sure, but it was meant to be small and very fast, and it mostly is, and we have DOH with tls, and DNSSec, which if you take initiative to configure correctly, is fine.

🤝 And DNS is not that different from nostr. Nice binary protocol with queries, signatures and everything. (hell, we can use dns as relays 🤣)