Perhaps but finally it is not sexy for the ones who want to communicate.
In an ocean of spam, fake, bots, do you think they could be mass adoption ?
The email have been spam because his usage was enough to be financially interesting for spammer.
I am not sure newbies here would be happy to have experience with spam bots directly without any advises or warn before.
Because you know how to do "mute", choose relay...
But a new user will ignore all this.
So perhaps because of this it will stay a network of geek. 🧐