do people need to learn the essence of nostr to be here? is the essence in keeping it developer oriented, forever? 

that kind of makes it super limited vs a truly global decentralized option for anyone to get into 

 Yes you need to learn what nsec is and what a relay is. You can do without knowing but then you’re going to do something stupid 

 like deleting a note? is there anything else?

can just say that without explaining relays, relays are infrastructure, not the interactive front end people get to touch right 

 They are both