Its a bidirectional relationship as well. Maybe I only want to communicate/see users from @mynostrcommunity.com or want to block anyone that does/nt have a NIP-05. Its about enabling optionality and multiple types of barriers. What ultimately makes nostr robust as a whole ecosystem is that there's no single criteria to game. You'll break nostr eventually if there's a singular best & unchangingWoT metric that all relays and clients use. Good luck doing that when every user, relay and client have even 10's of WoT algorithms to choose from.

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Yup totally with you, being able to choose the notes you can and can't see through their domain affiliation is awesome. Whitelist + blacklist for clients maybe, filter by nip05, not just WoT or relay choice but implicit rules like a firewall... small communities would love this so they can exist in their own pocket of the internet without spam or intervention from unknowns. Surely this could be a model for more usage of nostr without nostr even being known to be the underlying tech?