open response - ordinary users will never want to engage in relay management. If clients automanaged - e.g monitor which relays have the people they follow, and only hit those, but go wider if "no posts from X for 24 hours". OR everyone will end up relying on the Google Relay.
IANAC - I am not a coder...
But the user and operators still have a choice.
They do, but I just flagged it because a LOT of people here are very into decentralisation, and that means spotting where the likes of Google might step in and designing it out, as much as possible. I'm personally neutral. I use a gmail account for some things and a text display only one for others.
