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 Another close analogy:  

Many ham radios have a built-in repeater called crossband repeat allowing setup and use as a repeater to be a simply trivial matter.  You dont have to buy more hardware and you dont have to know much about repeaters to relay messages other than a couple of frequencies to use and turn it on.  

Nostr relays are becomming that easy to use.  There may already be clients with built-in relays, but if not there will be soon.