Runes are actually not too bad.  The problem is that they are too closely tied to ordinals and the assinine inscriptions.  I'm thinking about a nostr version removing all the spammy stuff.  Thinking of calling it #glyphs.  Then it is possible to have finance over nostr, using nostr npubs and taproot.  Not everyone's cup of tea, of course.  But there will be some legit use cases.