You are right! 

If Nostr wants to kick ass, do Nsecs and relays but everything else like Mastodon/Pleroma

Then, Nostr can be taken seriously . 

Alex Gleason is doing this now for Nostr with Ditto/Soapbox and it's beautiful. 

 Ditto sis pretty cool. Needs packages for the popular home server/bitcoin node systems out there like @umbrel and @Start9