Yeah, I'd have to agree. Although I did code the whole of nip-01 into fonstr today and it wasnt too bad. The thing is the original nip-01 was short and attractive, low learning curve. The current is more a wall of text. There must be a way to add the other bits in an attractive way. The protocol started very simple, but the NIPs have become messy.
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NIPs are fine. My complaint is retconning functionality back into an old NIP. For example, it would have been fine to just mark NIP-20 (“OK”) messages as required. No need to complicate matters by rewriting NIP history.