I'm curious what you're reading into what Hrefna said to make you believe that the protocol is a mess. If there is such a thing, it's mostly due to many fediverse developers trying to maintain interop with Mastodon, which leads to innumerable quirks that one needs to be mindful of.
Why do you think another protocol which has barely any implementations at the moment would be better when confronted with the same problem: many developers, interpreting some things in many ways?
Why do you think another protocol which has barely any implementations at the moment would be better when confronted with the same problem: many developers, interpreting some things in many ways?