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Sounds great in paper, in reality it amounts to little more than Twitter with Lightning (Bitcoin) duct-taped to the side
I don't think that's entirely fair; the Nostr protocol has a modular design philosophy, with most components being optional addons, including the Bitcoin payments stuff. It's genuinely decentralized and explicitly made to be easy to not use any baggage you don't like.
It's unclear from the article if the use of the protocol will also mean overlap with the content and community of Nostr, which is understandable to criticize, but the protocol itself is just another take on decentralized social media that does things differently than activitypub.
Lightning isn't Bitcoin
Taping Lightning to the side of nostr sucks, but doesn't reduce it to "little more than Twitter"
What makes Nostr like Bitcoin?
Actually, what makes nostr like Twitter? I'll grant that the Bitcoin aspect is indeed merely tacked on the side of an otherwise unrelated protocol.
The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it. Today, basically nobody uses it except for cryptocurrency shills. (I don't say that as merely an insult. The people on it constantly post about cryptocurrency or use cryptocurrency-specific in-jokes.)