We tried it out yesterday and it's ridiculous how convoluted it is and how difficult to do simple direct messages and groups. Groups couldn't be joined, I either couldn't find people or they couldn't find me. I really found the system intriguing but I can't imagine less tech savvy people to join as is.
You see why the matrix proto and apps around it are really complicated to the end user?
No cuz people also get that gMail or Outlook is different from eMail.
just signed up with hosted element. still gonna do p2p homeservers eventually but my group chats are currently disrupted so better to go here than hangouts telegram etc