There are many investors in the space that understand the complexity & cost of protocol development and believe in the multiplicative effect it can cause. There are investors that are also excited about the technology, the vision, the solution and they like to help good cause. They need to see some hint of path to success, but especially in the early rounds all investors understand that they most likely won't see their money back. Investors can then provide their network of people, help with hiring, help with resources, exposure and marketing, etc. (i.e. provide not just money, but other values too)
Now, you keep putting all these investors into a single bucket of evil people and attack their integrity with posts like this and that's something that investors are sensitive to. Many investors don't share publicly that they are investors and so you may see people in your comments that seem hurt & attacked without any obvious reason. This could explain some of it.
On the specifics - detailed search functionality with complete DSL is imo overrated. The world is shifting to just text and multi modal search anyway. Even if Primal can do better experience because they don't design a protocol solution, it doesn't matter much. If Damus (and nostr) gets basic search, people will be happy enough.
Further, there are examples where one app pioneers a great experience that users enjoy that is then later codified into a protocol. Sometimes the usecases and user needs need to be more fleshed out before we freeze those into a protocol.
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