It truly is. Quite interesting. And I agree we are not over the hump of irrelevance here. And it may be difficult to overcome.
Honestly the main reason I have stopped participating in "X" is because I recognized I was becoming addicted. Without the fine tuned dopamine loop of centralized social media the user just doesn't get that same hit on this platform. So why would the average user switch from the vodka that is Twitter to the sparkling water that is nostr?
That said, I am rooting for the protocol. I also anticipate some interesting novel uses will emerge that do something new here that can't be done on the other centralized frameworks.