This is one of the major benefits of Nostr. Notes are all signed, so they are self-authenticating. You KNOW they have not been manipulated, regardless of what relay you found it on.

If you lose the feature of every event being signed, you reintroduce the need to trust that the server isn't altering data.

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Signatures + decentralization is a nice combo.

I think we dont yet live upto its full potential.

Of course not.

And there are others who want to entirely abandon the idea of every event being signed by a private key.

Why? So we can have our social keys stored cold and also have key rotation, but no more self-authenticating events. Back to trusting the server. Oh, and you also lose censorship resistance via redundancy, since each public key only publishes to one server...