So far, Nostr is just looking a lot like the early days of the internet protocols, namely TCP/IP, which is a decentralized protocol, but needs support from other services, DNS, DHCP, etc., to make it useful.

I'm seeing the exact same thing in Nostr, in that, it's a 'decentralized' protocol that isn't defining the required scaffolding to make it useful, which inevitably means those will be filled by centralized services. NIP-05 is proving this out. The relay model itself is pretty broken, as the user doesn't own their posts, the relay they send to does.

How is Nostr going to avoid all these pitfalls? Is anyone working on that?