Some ideas about batching and the mental overhead associated with v4v:

Underlying perceived issue: the mental overhead associated with to-zap-or-not-to-zap still seems way too high to allow most individual content creators to benefit from v4v in a meaningful way.

Unless Nostr users are confronted with a request to zap, or are overwhelmingly impressed with an individual piece of content, and thus reminded to zap, human beings, being efficient, avoid the mental strain altogether and don't engage in the to-zap-or-not-to-zap decision making process and the mental energy that it requires.

Seems more productive that users be might allowed to opt-in to purchasing micro-bites of content over time, at a certain price, and of course are allowed to opt-out at any time. Like subscribing to a paid substack, but on a much smaller scale. An example of how this concept might work -- to be able to view a certain person's Nostr posts in an ongoing fashion, you agree to auto-zap 50 sats per post, with a max of 5 zaps per day, and/or a max of XXX sats per month, whatever makes sense. If they post more than that, you get to view those posts at no cost. If they post less than that, you only have to pay for what they do post. The content creator sets these prices with ongoing feedback from "the market".

If followers perceive the quality of a user's posts they've subscribed to going down, they hit the "unsubscribe" button. Subscribers periodically review their subscriptions and total amount spent on v4v content, and adjust their subscriptions according to the value they feel they are receiving.

Accounts to which users are subscribed are incentivized, but not overly-pressured, to produce quality content that others will enjoy consuming, and are rewarded for doing so. The market works out how much individual content creators should be paid, and at a higher level, incentivizes ongoing production of quality content.

Many users will still post at no cost, wanting their content to be freely available for ideological reasons, or because they don't want their reach limited in any way, or because it just doesn't make sense to attempt to charge for it, and this is of course 100% fine.

Not going to spend any more time thinking on this right now, just throwing it out there for consideration, feel free to hate on the concept as much as you want, LoL.