[ChasingEchoes]

theres another thing you didnt mention

The average users mainly cares if their friends are on it. As it stands most people use either iMessage, WhatsApp or FBs Messenger in the west and WeChat in the east.

Signal had at Jan 1st 2021 around 40 mln users. WhatsApp had 2 bln. FBs Messenger had 1.2 bln.

Between Jan 1st 2021 and Augst 1st 2021, Signal also lost around 60% DAUs

Kind'of hard to use a messaging app, no matter how feature rich it is, when you have nobody to message.

[Markoff]

Well of course that's the most important one, which goes even without saying, I was just working with (my real life) scenario when you are able to convince someone and then they have to deal with inferior service.

There were 2 things I liked about Signal, shared photos had much higher resolution than compress Whatsapp mess and I didn't need extra app for SMS, I couldn't really care less about privacy, since it's no more private than half of the other messengers.