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Don't you wonder how they make or plan to make revenue or do you think they're in it for truth, justice and happiness of all mankind ?

Yes, I do. I even mentioned it in another reply to you:

> There's a lot of problems around Telegram from their marketing to their crypto implementation to their incentives.

That said there are multiple ways around the monetization problem as long as you aren't trying to become a Silicon Valley unicorn:

- 1 USD pr user like WhatsApp

- Paid stickers and storage like MeWe

- Extra storage and extra features like Evernote

- Paid API access

- etc