You should welcome criticism. That's the crucible for improvement. Assume Monero is a complete dead-end, if nothing else, those Monero reply guys helped put pressure on Bitcoiners to bring more privacy solutions to shut them up. Win/win imo.
To your last sentence, Nostr already has a couple Monero integrations:
How does zapping a note with monero maintain privacy?
You can see any post on Nostr and tip anyone Monero in a single click as long as they have a Monero address somewhere on their profile. Nostr network doesn't know the Monero tip happened. No communication with relays about it by default.
Yeah that’s not a zap nice try tho
You're literally tipping a specific note. You can even click any tip on your client history to bring you to that specific note you tipped.
What would you say makes it different from a zap besides default public display? (There are tip options on Garnet to be less private and show some info on the note itself. It's just not default.)
Several Nostr clients like Amethyst already have the exact same option to "zap" a note you see with no trace on Nostr.
You should just try it out and see for yourself then come back and tell me why I'm wrong still if you want.
