As I understand it, NIPs are essentially “if you want your client to do this use case, here’s the standardized way that the official repo recommends.”

If you’re not interested in your client handling that use case, you could just ignore that NIP, no?

NIPs seem like they’re an opt in thing, whereas we’re conditioning to view these things from the lens of 3rd party APIs that require calls have certain info, and regularly change those rules so that the API call has to change.