If gossip adds zaps, will gossip users finally be able to hear people saying "thank you" with satoshis?

Bro you're hyping this way out of proportion.

There are conutless way to say "thank you" with sats

- send a tip to the LN Address in the user profile

- ask the user to post a LN invoice and pay it

- "zap" the user profile

- "Silent LN tips", where by liking a note, your bot sends sats to the LN Address in the recipients profile

- etc

Removing the zap btn from a note doesn't even come close to jeopardizing this.