It is also one of the most responsive messengers out there. It's also one of the rare messengers what are reliable also on 2G and other very slow and spotty networks. It's also one of the rare messengers that includes video calls, voice calls and mutiple other features that make communication easy. It supports groups, invitations via links and multiple other features that make coordination of communities easy and seamless. And it also doesn't lose all your messaging history everytime your phone breaks.
Privacy crowd needs to start understanding this and needs to stop behaving like robots who don't understand WHY people use these apps although they might be "dumpster fire" in that one privacy aspect. And then move to fix Signal and other to make sure they're not "dumpster fire" in aspects the wide users actually care about.