The UX of the late 90s internet by the standard knowledge was abysmal. You had to get a guy to come to your house and run wires, you paid for connectivity by the minute, nobody could call anyone while someone was using it unless you doubled your phone bill, videos just weren't a thing, you had to use special software to get anything interesting like music or movies, and those took days to download. You needed to learn IRC just to chat with people, you needed to learn something weird to do just about anything. Why does the name of a website start with .com? Still, it exploded.

By every conventional metric the UX of the internet is better. You've got it in your phone, you can literally touch a website with your fingers and resize it, video everywhere in seconds. But in reality everyone feels stuck, nobody knows why, everyone is being guided into silos, you have to run software to read articles, some AI tells you to eat one small rock a day. Everyone still uses it. The UX for the internet is abysmal, most people don't even know it, for many it's just s feeling, some talk about social media addiction, and a few really understand how bad it is.

The UX of nostr applications doesnt need to be "fixed" to onboard the masses. Whether or not the masses come is of little consequence. They'll come if they want, just like they used torrents for years. What will fix nostr isn't hiding everything behind veneer, it's the fact that all the clients are built by web devs who overcomplicate everything and need a NIP just to build something.

We don't need business case minded tech people who've spent years answering to a CTO and bring that mindset with them on how to improve nostr. What we need is creativity, that and a serious reduction in code complexity.