I just mean that Nostr does not have infinite waiting time. Without a lot of new users—and I mean a LOT—and a high enough percentage of them contributing financially, then Nostr as we know it may cease to be in a few years.

In such a case it'll not go away entirely, of course. But client devs will find other work, AWS bills will go unpaid, business licenses will expire, clients will break down and go offline one by one, and so on. There might be a few hundred people left using whatever is still usable. You know, the fallout scenario.

Is this a realistic fate? It sure could be, and it means Nostr can't be too presumptuous about having years and years of comfortable runway during which to wait for all these people to somehow (not sure how) come to their senses.