you know about the direct message metadata leak problem right?

we are so far away from having this solved while people are keeping necessary NIP-42 implementations under wraps

it's short term thinking about their own gain and zero thought about the bigger picture for the protocol and its future, completely unnecessary, there really isn't that many competitors out there and this kind of short cut to keeping them out is contrary to everything this stuff is supposed to be about 

 NIP-42 shouldn't only be a gate to paid access it should also gate access to DMs and application specific data 

 So, you're saying that the implementations are too narrow in scope? 

 i'm saying that it's an elephant in the room - free speech is fine but a reasonable layer of protection against access to privileged data - we here see a prisoner's dilemma that nobody wants to take the cost (a few days effort) to solve, which is abombinable 

 I think this won't change, until more people use SDKs.  Everyone will just build the absolute minimum they need. The correct model is for them to only implement the minimum they need from the core library.