Really great work on Gossip so far, @nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c. I just synced my fork of the Gossip client and installed the latest on master locally. Works fantastic! Great work, Mike, seriously.
Also, to address the concern of my having too many relays might be a DDoS of the network, at the slightest hint that I can't connect to a relay, I make sure to remove it. Culling dead relays dramatically improves client performance, I've found.