I'm more partial to peer to peer without tor. If I know the IP (or domain...) of just ONE "gateway" that helps me with discovery of peers and other gateways I care about, I can hop out from there. 
Plus this de-globalizes DNS: *this* gateway has abc.com registered at IP 1234 while *that* gateway has abc.com registered at IP 9876. So different voluntary communities can have their own little darknet of domains and peer to peer networking. 
If there happens to arise a very large and reliable gateway that "everyone uses", it could be considered something like "global", but Exit would *always* be on the table.  

 I mean sure but we’re talking about nostr tor that doesn’t use exit nodes at all and running things at known ip addresses doesn’t exactly help with either privacy or censorship resistance if your adversary is a nation state. But you do you. 

 True, but this protocol I'm describing could use proxys by default (the proxy could be on the same machine by default for those without privacy concerns, or on a remote machine if one is willing to add a bit of complexity in order to gain more privacy). Definitely a different strategy than Tor, with some weaknesses, but much more "normal" and easier to slot into existing networking paradigms. Like all this orbot stuff wouldn't be necessary.