TL;DR:

Zion is just a copy/pasta clone of Sphinx. Those guys are DOA, couldn’t build something even if they wanted. The synonym ppl at least acknowledge Nostr is interesting but are too busy with zeroconf derp. No one defends ActivityPub. The DID folks are lost in corporate-think trappings.

Ultimately ppl are just in denial because Nostr just works, and blindsided them.