A lot of the "features" that most people complain nostr apps lack are just stuff that, simply, the decadent "social media" apps imposed on users because they benefit their sick business model, aka "monetization" of user information.
It's perfectly understandable that devs looking to profit from nostr spend so much time and effort trying to replicate them. Not so much that users are the ones clamoring for them. They seem to have become completely unable to either remember what "the social internet" used to be like.
Or, if they're just so young all they've known is Facebook and its hellish walled garden ilk, they seem unable to think outside the box and imagine other ways to communicate.
I do not need a permanent TL hosted on a relay. I do not need search "features" that log what my interests are. I don't want companies and commercial content on my feed. I don't even think the thread model is that great, either. You may like all those things for the right reasons, and that's fine.
What I'm saying is that if nostr's offer to the wider public is "we do the same, just worse. But we've got bitcoin", they will just stick with what they know forever. There are models in the past that fit what nostr claims to be a lot better and that were abandoned for the wrong reasons. If you have to copy, why not look at those?