hodlbod on Nostr: The problems I'm talking about are true of any automatic consumption and use of ...

The problems I'm talking about are true of any automatic consumption and use of monitor events. That can be solved through sophisticated analysis, or through manual review. A thing like nostr.watch that would allow client developers to find and select good relays would be a welcome tool (nostr.watch's tools are too rudimentary to be super helpful). Likewise, a sophisticated server component that client devs can run that analyzes monitors and exposes relay selections via API could also be useful. My point isn't that raw monitors aren't useful, but that they need lots of opinionated tooling on top to become useful.