I think they enable greater degrees specialization, a client can stay true/honest in terms of not having to design around serving ads meant for the common denominator. Facebook has to serve video game ads to kids and medicine to the elderly on the same platform, they can't afford to specialize so they have to appeal to their audience in other ways.

It's not like there won't be a popular gambling-sex-drugs-explosion-violence-focused heroin equivalent nostr client one day when that content is made available, it's that the grandpa on nostr who wants to like a photo from Sunday church is not going to have to be forced to scroll through pages of ads telling him he needs dick pills and a cruise vacation after arguing with some foreigner about their politics to get to it🤣

nostr won't stop people who want to be glued to their screen, they might even prefer it; they'll just have more say into what is in front of them
 

 An interesting perspective.