Agree. Mentions is my inbox. Where I spend most of my time. Anything to get me there faster helps the conversation.
gossip is trying out a unified inbox…with mentions and DMs in one view. Worth playing with. We looked at this at Twitter. Has to be done carefully as it’s a context shift.
Though, DMs on nostr are sort of broken and perhaps it’s better they are left out of clients for now and instead single purpose apps are explored for them. Maybe current clients only focus on public conversation and get that to the most excellent state.