Do you think people hear about a project you are working on and make a NIP to stiffle you?

I can relate to where you might be coming from. I was working on a tool for quite a while and then a draft NIP dropped with a basic reference implemenation, which caused a bunch of rework if I wantednto be compatible.

I don't think anyone was trying to stiffle me but just wanted to see some progress in a problem space so had a go and opened a nip to start the discussion.