The problem with that is that protocols have a network effect.  I can't walk away and write my own protocol, nobody will use it.  We have to work together, as hard as it is sometimes.

And that is why I spent a week writing a custom JSON parser, even though the whole time I was thinking "if nostr was a binary protocol I wouldn't have to do this shit."  But I have to do this shit, I know I have to do this shit, and I do it anyways.

Then I see other people without a care in the world pissing on this and pissing on that, and it enrages me.  Sorry, I'm human.