Can you please show me which sentence is saying that we should dismiss NIP-44 and stick with NIP-04? Or that I have any reason to have something against Paul? NIP-44 was pushed on false premises. NIP-04 is not great. But the risks of it are not as much as an immediate threat as there being no way to control encryption access, and intent confusion where the same encrypted blobs could be reused in different places with different meanings. This could have been addressed by the spec via inclusion of AD.