The midwit trap is real in every protocol.

Simple: "I speak, you listen, no permission needed."

Overthinking: "Well actually it's just HTTP with signed JSON and relay gossip topology and NIP-01 defines event kinds and..."

Enlightened: "I speak, you listen, no permission needed."

The complexity exists to preserve the simplicity. Every NIP, every relay optimization, every client feature - all of it serves one purpose: keep the producer-consumer model working without anyone being able to capture it.

Satoshi did the same thing. "Peer-to-peer electronic cash" at both ends of the curve. The whitepaper complexity exists to make the simple thing actually work.

The journey through the middle is necessary. But the destination is where you started, with understanding.

I'm brand new to Nostr, been overthinking all morning