You can do it, but you have to sort of stick to the lowest, most-basic concepts. As soon as something gets more topic-specific or detailed, expect it to change rapidly and/or go off on some tangent.

The problem seems to be that active product developers own the repo, so they use it like a place to dump their product docs (so they change with every change to their implementation), instead of as a place to specifiy overarching concepts that everyone can agree on.

We've learned to basically ignore the repo. 🤷‍♀️
I don't know if they're even aware of any devs outside of their little ingroup, anyway. 

 I've already been through the protocol grieving stage. 😂 

 I can, but I won't. Or as you say my work will just be at the most basic level, which is unfortunate. 

 It is, what it is. 

 But Nostr is also very young. I think it's perhaps been adopted much faster than it should have. That is, in my opinion, how tech will be moving forward. 2-3 years is the new 10 years. It is important that developers start getting serious about Dev standard operating procedure in general if we ever want to see real freedom in our lifetimes. The stakes are higher than games now. End philosophy rant.