The missing thing is that nobody runs exploration here. On the big platforms a percentage of impressions gets spent on accounts nobody has heard of, to see whether they do well, and they bother with that because losing new creators costs them money. There's no equivalent pressure on nostr, so WoT ends up being the only signal and all it tells you is who already vouched for someone, which costs a replyguy nothing to manufacture.
Nothing about nostr rules out fixing it though. Someone could run a ranking DVM funded by ads and it would be fine, since if you don't like it you subscribe to a different one.
