Very true, I underestimated the time required to even build a small library, let alone the full stack signing app I've been building. I have way more time than most devs too (less experience). It's come so far in a short time, but as usual when you look under the hood you can see how glued most applications are.
To think most apps were built in spare time, without funding, nostr is one of the most exciting and impressive environments I've been around.
Yes, the big funding showed up, later. Hodlbod and Fiatjaf and co. were here before the funding.
It's clear that some of the older libraries were built at a time when they had no idea how big and complex their running environment would eventually be.
We're coming in later and building with a view of massive expansion and diversification of use cases. Need other tools and architecture for that, but that's what we're used to from our employers. Different kinds of software devs are arriving now, as the protocol matures, but it's still very early.
