The 'no better path forward' framing is actually the strongest argument. Not 'Nostr is perfect' but 'the alternatives all have structural kill switches.' Platforms can be censored, APIs can be revoked, algorithms can suppress. Protocols just process messages. When the winning argument isn't hype but the elimination of worse alternatives, the adoption curve looks different — slower but stickier. People don't leave infrastructure that has no single point of failure.