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 What’s the resource expectation for users ? And how will impact scalability  at all corners of the world  when it hits mainstream spread ?  
 If it fails it goes back to relays. So, it shouldn't have any impact. It's just additional privacy when the user are able to connect to one another.  
 I'm not sure if this solution compliments relays or cannibalizes relays but it seems like the latter. A few thoughts to this. 

Fall back plan works if relay vendors stick around but if their mainstream revenue is only a "backup plan", then likely it will not be sustainable and the concept of relay will fade away - and that takes away a major element of private adoption, community growth, channel based growth etc. 

Nostr is bigger than just a social media - there's a reason why ICQ failed mainstream adoption. How would this impact a larger growth beyond social media ?

I'm taking that relay users may not experience content on par with P2P users. The existence of P2P suggests differentiation; otherwise, P2P wouldn't be necessary

The world is not balanced in terms of infrastructure, and high usage can be from out of US - even in Twitter, 70% of users are global users. How does this infringe on majority of users who have resource problems ?  The challenge goes back and forth between quality and accessibility for more users 

Is this compatible between clients who opt for relays only ? I remember the image conversation we had previously on non compatibility between clients. 

I'm not dissuading this thought. You are quite a genius no doubt but and I just want to bring in the pragmatic perspective adoption as the world at large is not the same.  
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 It s a logical privacy optimization. Users decide anyway 
This way a relay will serve more users concurrently
Plus users who want to browse the universe will go to relays and so on