A free & easy experience should be subpar to some degree, and everything else should be enticing enough to either learn it, pay for it, or both. The old paradigm needs to be replaced. 

The local relay hasn't been a bad ux from my experience. I had a few quirks at first, nothing unexpected though. It's only gping to improve from here too.  

 I don't think it should be sub-par. Limited, maybe, but not confusing, convoluted, and poorly documented.  

 At the rate of innovation, those things are inevitable until something resembling "what works" can emerge. I'm kind of glad there's a shortage of documentation at the moment, because most of what does exist is already outdated. Old information is worse than a lack of information sometimes😅 

 But yes, subpar in the maybe-not-so-distant future, should be limited, perhaps slower, and have annoying references to the better ux.