I never expected nostr to "just work" because it took me more than a year to get on board with it - I heard of it almost two years ago and I knew there was *some* learning curve, but I'm STILL effing learning almost 3 weeks later? That's a PITA. 

I'll look at Minibits. 

What's your client of choice then, if you're not into Primal? I'm on desktop most of the time, Graphene OS on Android only when I want to zap something because I hate every signer extension I've tried so far on desktop. Every single one has been crap. Amber is superior on mobile.