I've been user of Signal for years, but with recent changes especially with screen nagging me and everyone else to enter PIN I'm going back to Whatsapp, which was my secondary messenger, but which has most contacts anyway.
What are the other options - Messenger, Telegram, Skype or whatever Google kills this year, which are all not even E2E encrypted by default (let alone colecting metadata)? Anything else has zero users and it's not user friendly.
It's not like there is user friendly completely safe service, after all even Signal now collects and stores your contacts in cloud after forcing you to create PIN nobody asked for, while they still keep asking for phone number and nag you with other prompts instead of adding basic features like pin conversation to top.