I'm not overly technically minded but from the way you put point one, it sounds like nostr has a really nasty drug addiction, metaphorically speaking. 

And point two is something I've been banging my drum hard about for so long. It's refreshing to hear a bigger name finally saying what many refuse to believe. When there are so many features married to Bitcoin and, as you correctly put it, most people are anti-bitcoin, you drive those people away—closing nearly all avenues of growth. And when that happens and nostr becomes nothing just another failed social network experiment, it won't be around when the world actually needs/wants it.

And for all the "Bitcoin/Nostr is inevitable" people in the comments: The arrogance of inevitability forgets the only inevitable thing in life is death. 

 Language barriers actually help. Apparently there is a thriving Japanese community that doesn't really interact much with the bitcoin nest! 

 I've heard that too. Though from my understanding part of that is thanks to geo-locked relays. 

 whole that might be true it is also true that theres a bunch of platforms put there who are not even remotely interested in Bitcoin marriage.  Its good to have at least one where Bitcoin is a first class citizen, to borrow a term from DEV circles