Relays being 'dumb' made them easy to build, and so Nostr impossible to capture. It's also why we have the infrastructure we do today. Your original definition ensured Nostr didn't end up looking like Bluesky.
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That's true. Sort of. It was the NIP-01 definition of relay coms and kind 1 that did it. That was a very low bar, that everyone could jump over. That made more simple relays architecturally small and easy to install, so that lots of us could spin one up.
And then we added the fact that there was zero expectation that everyone have a complete set of anything and went toward outboxes and aggregators+broadcasters, instead. That was also smart.