Joe on Nostr: NOSTR is for whatever the person wants to create and find its funding in whatever way ...

NOSTR is for whatever the person wants to create and find its funding in whatever way it sees fit.
I could just as easily go on some blah blah opinion that zaps are the false messaging as it’s assigning a monetary transaction to something that’s inherently non-transactional (free).
It wouldn’t matter because it’s up to the dev.
Zaps are one of many ways to fund Nostrs devs and servers, but it’s non-essential to NOSTR beyond that.