I have never seen Nostr "smaller projects" not become the basis for the Nostr "larger projects". Even major rewrites don't help, for long, as the regressions immediately begin seeping in, and the entire architecture groans under the weight of its own inefficiency and ineffectiveness.

The crappy quality they begin with just stays that way, indefinitely, because those developers refuse to learn better engineering and are actively discouraged from doing so, by people who pay them to stay ignorant and amateurish, so that they can't steal the limelight from the Planned Winner.