Idk. Whatever the case is, I usually tell people interested not to use Nostr unless they’re treating it like an Alpha build, because that’s essentially what it is.
I won’t lie, I’m disappointed in its progress, as well. I thought it was going to catch up quickly because all the clients went from unusable dogshit to decent-ish in just a few weeks early this year, but that stagnated quickly, nothing has changed or developed at all since then.
It’s still better than Fedi for my needs but that’s probably not true for most people.