Isn't the bigger issue that these bridges require you still to have a whatsapp account? So it's just a different frontend, but you're still bound by Meta's TOS, PP and data collection.
It’s like sending an email to someone’s gmail address! Its content will be scanned, but yon don’t have to deal with Gmail running on your computer. With this, you can have a nicer client (especially desktop) that don’t have whatever unnecessary features WhatsApp wants to promote (like status and channels). Discord, Slack, Teams and Spotify are other services that are begging for alternative frontend.