Well said, i think you'd like sms4sats, one purpose, useful, good ux.

Most of all, something you can only use sats for, which is the main thing lightning needs to offer to gain use beyond early adopters.

And in the background, that's something that nostr could be setting the ecosystem up for by allowing arbitrary peer to peer routing and being the main way to route around censorship, centralization, and surveillance.

Sms4sats is solving this problem in miniature, a way around sms verification, except nostr is creating a whole alternative system that doesn't need sms verification measures, but as you've said this is somewhere well down the road.