It’s they want something they can localized in to Te Reo, has a default list of cities and Marae’s and things like that. Also because they believe in sovereignty they want to run their own relays. 

I’m curious about your updated nsec hosting, i think having a good solution for that would really help nostr take off. It’s one of the big advantages of the way bluesky puts your keys on the PDS and then lets you have the PDS custody them. Either bluesky run or if you host your own.