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I'm not trying to talk down your personal experience or have any skin in the game, but...

We also have a group of technical users on Matrix, where we were formerly on IRC. Nobody complains about Element and most prefer it over the native clients they tried (but it doesn't rule out the possibility that everyone hates all native clients here).

This is also just anecdata with a sample size of "handful of users", but from the other side.

I personally would love to have a native Windows and Linux client I really like (preferably the same), but so far I've had no luck. The Android version of Element is perfect for my usage pattern though.