Important that we acknowledge what is. As Peter Drucker said "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." There's another quote I like "The best way to realize your dream is to wake up." This is a wake-up call. And ... some people will prefer to live in the simulation where everything appears fine (and criticize you for reflecting an uncomfortable truth) than take the blue pill and confront what is. Kudos to you for saying it like it is. I'd also love to hear any ideas you have about how to increase active user count.

Nostr is always a work in progress

nobody knows what a protocol is. who knows anything about ISO OSI? we say nostr is not a platform. so why a primitive kind 1 user count is important? nwc, coinjoin, recent sparrow plugin for nym payments, Tim's work on records, rpc, ... that's what i find interesting and promising. the transport layer.