[dovholuknf]

I appreciate your thoughtful reply and I didn't think you were tossing any shade for what it's worth. I was just arguing that to me, both are "app embedded". IMO, the fact that traffic relays or not to me is non-consequential, what's important is where the encryption starts and where it ends (and where authorization happens but that's also separate). If it starts the client and ends at the 'server' then it's fully e2ee -- it doesn't matter if traffic traverses only IP-based underlays or if it traverses over an overlay at that point.

I very much appreciate the "outsider" perspective though and thank you very much for sharing it. That perspective is impossible to obtain after you work on a project for long enough! :)

Cheers!