[uberjoe]

Yes, constantly adding new innovative features which WhatsApp will then copy. Today is video messages, which look great.

Have the option of secret chats, which I believe is proper E2EE. But to be honest, this isn't my biggest worry anyway.

Can join plenty of communities for lots of discussion.

Great searching features for old conversations.

Desktop client is great and available for Linux. Also supports voice calling now from desktop.

But most importantly, you can have more than one device per phone number! Crazy, right?!