And that's fine, let the prebiotic soup be the starting point. You learn the landscape make frens and find where your tribes are, you can worry about how to configure your relays after, especially if you're following others who have already done it.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of basic functionality - of which Amethyst's hashtag feeds are an equivalent.
Essentially, yes. Some methods will work for some people and other different methods will work for others. As long as we have choices and more options for more technical users, but also don't forget about newbies, I think we'll be okay.