yes I don't like go-nostr either. In the future all of my project will migrate to a minimal library.
Where can I check your work?
Discussion
https://git.mleku.dev/mleku/nostr i guess you don't like those binary coded things. i agree they are a little fiddly (must remember to use the helpers to compare/extract them). but anyway, just in case you forgot it exists
I'm trying to take a different path with my Nostr library stack. So far I've done the consensus layer for the Nostr protocol (roots) and the websocket message schema (roots-ws) in both go and typescript. And I'm working on the basic messaging library (honeybee). And as you need advanced features, the goal is to place them in separate libraries. And then you compose the parts you need into an app.