Agree. I am so happy that Dorsey's other open protocol (nostr) went another route. There is no 'official' client, there is just a whole bunch of competing clients, some of which have even attracted some small funding strategies to maintain a development team for the forceable future.

But none of these clients are big enough to push through locked-in features. They all have to play nice (for now, like SMTP and IMAP once did) and be interoperable.

For info, check out Lopp's blog: https://blog.lopp.net/why-nostr-matters/