It's not just that messaging that is a particular thing. Most things in are particular things. Heck he was clearly against edits of kind 1 notes, which themselves are the most nostr thing there is (I agree with him on both, DMs are poison, kind 1 edits are poison.) That, plus how clearly the early docs emphasise simplicity, gives what seems to me a clear idea of what the vision was (granted the vision has changed since then). He doesn't like DVMs either (also poison). And on and on. I don't even know all the things that make up the current mix of *all of the things*. But all this stuff is alien. Nostr has become an insanely complex web of alien civilisations. Not a bad thing, just it isn't Nostr anymore. It's a websocket-based decentralised storage and API alternative. Which, cool, but I'm not buying that this was the vision.