I'm sceptical of the zaps in nostr: is there a vison and is there motivation in the right places to achieve it?

Zaps are going through Wallet of Satoshi or ln dot tips, the latter actually being the telegram tip bot. Even if some people think that's fine, it's certainly not what #nostr is about.

It's custodial and centralized, not to mention the privacy implications. That may be fine for a while, but I've seen this play out differently in practice.

Sure, it's good to familiarize people with using the currency. You're really just abstracting away ledger transfer that doesn't represent the actual technology.

That still might be fine, but it usually doesn't get past the fun little microtransactions.

I've seen chat rooms where people use tipbots to send microtransactions of crypto through