Ah, yes I get it now, but that would mean all the peers you care about would need to be on the same relay, and you would need to cut yourself from non-paid relays, basically cutting you off from the rest of Nostr.
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Yeah it could cause fragmentation, but if you're on several payed relays you maintain the censorship resistance, while avoiding spam.
Free relays are working also to mitigate spam so payed may not be the only answer.
Time will tell.
But paying for nostr > netflix.
Especially since you can pay with sats.
For now I am using both payed and non-paid.