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 What? Why would it need an API? All nostr data is public and searchable by connecting to a few relays no? 
 Nostr was designed poorly and relay admins and devs are lazy so wot is what they came up with to ruin nostr  
 You say poorly, I say practically.

You say devs are lazy, I agree.

Then without any facts or leading arguments... conspiracy theory.  
 So relays being an open spam box is practical? 
 Nostr started small and basic. This is what has allowed it to have so many contributors and products being built around it. This is what I call practical.

Creating an open network that everyone can use at scale is hard, spam has never beem solved at the protocol level. 
 lol did  you miss out on the entire Fediverse, Matrix, and XMPP? All designed way better  
 Subjective.

Sometimes all you need is a bunch of sticks to prop up a thing, not a perfectly crafted table. Sometimes that bunch of sticks is more versitile.

Hey, time will tell. 
 dude, nobody designs software this way........This is a day 1 problem...
it's really biting them in the nuts now isn't it?  
 Is it? 
 Yes. lol. You know nothing about software huh 
 My nostr experience is pretty fine, for social media, for zaps, for keeping a private spreadsheet via sheetstr, and for blogging.

I also don't see a wave of nostr devs getting frustrated with technical debt or bad design and quitting, heck I see interest growing.

Look out the other window friend. 
 It can be a lot of data the client has to fetch depending on how many people you follow and how many people they are following.

That being said @Zapstore could absolutely cache and calculate a subset of that data and only do a API request when the user wants to see the full WoT or if the selected subset is unlucky and shows a WoT of 0. 
 Yes, completely agree. We want something like this. 
 Relays do not provide this kind of data aggregation