How about build into the clients a function where you have to pay a 1 sat fee for each edit you wish to perform which goes to the client dev fund wallet?

how can one be at the same time for covenants and against edit?

Data has zero marginal cost vs Proper money can’t be recreated

The issue is not the usage from a user perspective; the issue is that it creates a fork, between clients that support this and clients that don’t. A client that shows edits will show an entirely different thing than a client that doesn’t. Keeping kind 1 simple is crucial which is also why we don’t support markdown, html, and all kinds of bells and whistles. If you increase the cost of running a node few people will. If you increase the cost of creating a client few people will.

Welcome to the Fediverse circa 2021…

But tools like Nostr Development Kits will raise the bar from the other side.

You can’t depend on SDKs to abstract complexity; that’s the death of protocols because then the SDK becomes a choke point and developers using the SDK become captive, downstream, to the SDK.