[Vinnl]

IMHO it's a very feasible position to just let those geeks keep criticising while meaningfully raising the bar on privacy for the average user. There will always be geeks who complain, but also plenty of them that see that perfect doesn't have to be the enemy of the good.

[binary132]

Aren’t YOU the one saying perfect (“complaining geeks”) is the enemy of the good-enough (“raising the privacy bar for everyone, but not really that much”)?

I’d go as far as to say good-enough is the enemy of the better.

[Vinnl]

Yes, I am saying that perfect is the enemy of good enough. I think that if Signal were to keep chasing the complaining geeks, it would cease to be good enough. In the sense that it would be far less widely used, and thus not raise the privacy bar of society even a little bit. Which is why I advocate for not worrying about the complaints too much, i.e. to not let perfect be the enemy of good.

(Obviously there's always room for improvement, but even if there wasn't, the complaining still wouldn't stop.)