You realize that by citing your “circle uses Telegram” when even a cursory internet search will show you and your friends are in the minority, will quickly reveal how small your bubble is?
My cursory internet search shows me that it has 700 Million active users worldwide - that number is not "small" in my opinion. One of the most popular messaging apps in Asia, Europe, CIS countries, LatAm etc. I think you just prove my point of there being an North American bias against other messaging platforms fwiw