I think the technical shortcomings of Nostr can be overcome, but not without some growing pains.  The design from the get go was inefficient at the data layer, so its no surprise that this bleeds into how events are exchanged to finally be seen by someone.  Ultimately people who publish something want as many eyes on it as they can get, unless they are tollgating access at the outset (but even still, the preference is for everyone to know about it). This alone means things like blastr are going to be a benefit for them.  On the flip side, people want to be fed quality (signal over noise) in the most efficient manner. I want less posts of the same, and I want one or few places to go to get it.  I think some of this is only enhanced by paid services were all parties have skin in the game, vs just the relay operators footing the cost, and client devs giving up their labor for free (no, v4v does not work to cover labor costs).

I also agree on the seed culture to an extent. Nostr is still overly weighted to Bitcoin, and its repetitive NPC style postings, and is even plagued by Bitcoin centric features.  To date, there are still no zapless polls available in Nostr, cutting out a good mechanism to get quick tallies of peoples choices, and the seemingly forced usage of Bitcoin for relays and services that charge fees can also be a turnoff to those more used to a world where they can pay with a credit card on a recurring basis.  On topics, I want to see more of the variety of posts about peoples hobbies and interests, events they've attended or trips taken etc but this still is in short supply compared to Bitcoin and Memes which handidly dominate nostr discourse. 

 Zapless polls would be a nice feature.  I don't see fiat for services being a viable option because the infrastructural overhead required to accept fiat payments. Perhaps if clients or wallets included options to buy sats on lightning we could improve the onboarding UX for normies. 

I believe Primal uses Strike on the back-end of the built-in wallet. If that is correct, couldn't the option to purchase sats via debit card be a relatively straightforward add? 

 I know your concern. I'm sure most people would worry about the second point. 

The first point is not a problem, it is just that you are the faster client developer. Other developers are catching up. 

The second point I think is the unique advantage of Nostr. I've talked to most of my friends and the people who haven't been censored and the people who hold shitcoins don't care about decentralized censorship-resistant social networks at all. Only Bitcoin holders pay attention. Bitcoin talent is Nostr's strongest foundation. We are now building censorship resistant networks that are easy to use. Just like Bitcoin in 2009, very few people paid attention at first. We're just getting started, but we're already growing a lot faster than Bitcoin.

 I think there's something else we should be worried about. How can we create a client on Nostr's decentralized network that is different, but better, simpler, and more engaging than traditional social networks? That's the hard part, and that's one of the things Nostr should be breaking through. The average user does not choose Nostr because it is censor-resistant. That's what we need to work on.