I like your reply in many ways:
- Clients (and any Nostr project for that matter) need to eat, without forgetting opportunity cost for the developer(s)
- I assumed, as you did, that sooner or later clients will implement ads (tbh I hadn't thought about sponsored content, but that's gonna be a reality too, sooner or later). I never saw it as a bad thing, but what i can't stand is bad advertising/bad implementation (in your face/interrruption, etc)
- Turn off ads has got to be one of the many features that motivate an user to go premium
I believe we have to embrace monetization in one way or another, if we want the Nostr ecosystem to thrive, and not only wait for getting a scrap of Jack's money.