A user's NIP-65 list can carry ~20 relays, most dead. Subscribing on all of
them is the dominant REQ-storm amplifier: every subsystem fans every query
across all relays and re-fires on each flaky-relay reconnect. Cap the
read/subscribe set to a bounded core (6), prioritizing the bundled known-good
defaults; WRITES still fan out to the full set so publish reach is unaffected.
Interim until RelayHealth ranks by liveness (docs/architecture-refactor.md P1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
