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But I think you need to mention by default telegram is 4 out of 7, by default whatsapp is 6 out of 7 if you want to compare that kind of thing.

Most people are not going to use the secret chat.

Is anyone so incapable that they would not know how to enable the secure features?

Most people don't care about secret chat. This is for people who care. Granted, they don't have secret chat on Desktop which makes the whole app useless in general unless you only use phones for communication.

>Most people are not going to use the secret chat.

This is a reason i said "It's ok" in my original comment. Few people need encryption in day to day communication, but if you need it telegram is better.

Completely out of date.

Try this one: https://www.securemessagingapps.com

Recommends Signal and (with caveats) Threema and Wire.

> This is version 1.0 of our scorecard; it is out of date, and is preserved here for purely historical reasons.

It is out of date but they have revised it just after whatsapp implemented p2p encryption. Before that whatsapp rating was even lower.