LISP and Smalltalk managed to put the whole language definition in half a page. Nostr puts the whole network definition in the really short NIP01. It may feel naive, but that's why it will be successful. The multiple experiments by inexperienced developers, the interactions, the re-learning and the attention captured is more valuable than the efficiency of a system "built the right way" from scratch. The "right-way" is awfully similar to design by committe, or central planning. It's what W3C did to DID, VC, and many other (now failing) standards.