nostr:npub1se8gatwfayrhgpmwg3yu9au2ymdwjsaegd8hapty240n53v56awsy585la IRC is a protocol that can be implemented by literally five year old that has been teached programming and networking basics.

So you're telling me the smartest Matrix developers (of course, smarter than XMPP devs) can't figure out the simplest chat protocol ever?