The only issue I had with Amethyst is that it appears to cut off the feed after a certain point kind of like Twitter would show you only the most recent 3000 posts and after that you would have to search or scrape the site should you wish to find older stuff. And I do not know -- haven't looked or had the time to -- whether there even is a way to scrape NOSTR. As for aesthetics and functions apart from that I have no complaints, it was the smoothest experience getting on NOSTR and is in fact why I am here in the first place since signup was so painless.
i wanted to use noStrudel on my new Android Tablet but here is why i went with Amethyst instead
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1 - noStrudel wasn't in Google Play Store
2 - when i opened noStrudel as a web page it seemed to be running in desktop mode with menu on the side, even though the tablet was in portrait orientation. i didn't know if there is some other mode that was available for vertical tablet use or how to enable it.
3 - i really didn't want to deal with Alby again and simply pasting the nsec into Amethyst was a breeze compared to the nightmare of trying to get Alby to find one of like 20 accounts it set up for me and then confused them all with it taking me an average of like 5 trial / error cycles to get Alby to provide the correct keys when setting up on a new machine
4 - when searching for noStrudel on Google Play Store with filter set to minimum of 4.5 stars Amethyst is basically the only result - so that's why i went with it
it was probably the smoothest experience setting up a NOSTR client on a new device for me yet. it felt almost like setting up X on the same tablet - i pasted my NSEC in and it worked.
this literally never happened to me with NOSTR before.
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Discussion
i don't think NOSTR needs to be as easy to use as X and in fact it probably SHOULD be harder to use - but not *almost impossible* as is sometimes the case with Alby and some more experimental clients especially when you have accidentally setup several NSECs and different relay lists on different clients and so on ...
overall i don't think of NOSTR as replacement for normal social media but as a parallel paradigm just like how SMS and E-Mail exist in parallel even though you could argue they are somewhat redundant
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