The old way is way more complicated. People need to keep tracking where their follows are posting to update their pull lists. On this one, you just inform where your posts are, where you want to receive notifications and after that is done and thats it. There is no need to setup which relays you want to use in the app to download posts from. Much easier.

typically when people refuse to learn, I find it's because they don't want to. that's when it's best not to force it on them by making choices for them, because that just leads to you (the developer in this case) doing it all for them. is that the responsibility you want? nostr i think is about user choice, how hard is that? not very..