I agree with that, but the amount of people who will be setting their own nip05 manually and do not know the difference between hex and npub is likely very small. It's not worth bloating the protocol because of that.
The people you're seeing are using self-hosted nip05s? Where are they? Maybe these services that host nip05s for others should start validating their input and converting npubs to hex before serving.
fiatjaf /
npub180…jh6w6
2023-06-17 11:48:20
in reply to nevent1q…q8mg
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npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6Seen on
wss://relay.noswhere.comPublished at
2023-06-17 11:48:20Event JSON
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