Read the auto-transcript of the discussion.
Or learn to play it at 2.5x speed while washing the dishes or something - very akin to reading except your hands and eyes are free to do other things.

I'd think of this more as an infrastructure than a social media 'app'

Exactly. As Edward Snowden was quoted video, rather than a silo, Nostr is a river.

this can solve all the problems they think it can

They admit it's not perfect. But it's a step in the right direction. One limitation they admit is that there is not a simple plug-n-play client that most people can use. Maybe you can work on that? An app, module, addon, whatever. Simpler or complex. Like all things IMO ideally it would have 4 modes: 1) plug-n-play, 2) basic, 3) advanced, 4) expert.

disjointed clusterfuck

The cross-blocking is only up to the end-user, as it should be - not the tribes or shitty admins.

I fear complex chaos bloat too. Not sure if/how there are ways to categorize/organize/search/sort/tag/vote content, individually or collectively.