To be honest they felt like a good idea to me when I first read the NIP.
I still like them as tags assigned by a third party. We could rewrite the NIP to be just that.
Ok nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnhv4ehgetjde38gcewvdhk6tcprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzqwlsccluhy6xxsr6l9a9uhhxf75g85g8a709tprjcn4e42h053vanaunjh you win, NIP 32 was a mistake. I still think it has valid use cases, but it looks too much like an infinitely flexible sub-protocol and is constantly being misunderstood and misused.
Discussion
Basically removing the self-labeling part? That would make it clearer.
