Nobody wants to do this, I know.

More coordination leads to slower development, but higher overall quality and interoperability, and the focus -- until now -- has been entirely on speed.

But this is what you have to do, to keep an open protocol from just turning into a hot mess. You have to voluntarily build discussion pools around wider topics.

The NIP repo is the wrong pool because one NIP can cover n topics and one topic can affect n NIPs.