there's a lot of spooks in the minds of many of the most engaged with nostr users as well, that are interfering with problems actually being solved
DMs are still broken because you all silly persons think that somehow you can get away from the relay as trusted third party without throwing out the whole protocol architecture. spoiler alert: just because some relay operators are going to be glowies doesn't mean they all are and failing to implement adequate implementations that actually work is interfering with the people who are attempting to create adequate customer service for their subscribers.
so it's not even just normies whose caved in heads are a problem, there's more than a few wojacks building nostr software too, especially clients
we'll route around the braindamage though, anyway.