Yea and I actually recall someone making the point it should have been binary

Ultimately it's the implementations that make the rules, the idea of bouncing signed data off webservers is as old as the web itself... Nostr just made it simple for midwits to understand so they could feel like contributors... that came at the cost of a larp army obsessed with retarded specs, not implementing shit that actually works

Nostr can only succeed if there's a broadly useful SDK, which imo has to have commercial motives