Generally speaking: they're not the same kind of thing, and no. For two reasons: most of these recommendations are at a lower level; they talk about primitives,

Generally speaking: they're not the same kind of thing, and no. For two reasons: most of these recommendations are at a lower level; they talk about primitives, not about protocols. Secondly, most applications still want TLS, probably with limited ciphersuite support, although you could do a lot worse than Noise. TLS is much better understood, and better supported. Noise is great if you care about implementing protocols with new properties, like indistinguishability, or over novel transports, or denaibility, or...