Did anyone ever consider that this is actually on purpose to deter people from using Signal by it's authors?

Lets imagine, theoretically, some three letter agency in the US has forced signal to backdoor their platform somehow, and so signal stops posting source code to the clients, and everyone just keeps on using it for a year even though the authors thought that maybe this would be a big red "DANGER" signal to the users (who they're not legally allowed to inform, or shutdown the platform for any more) then how else could you try and mitigate this?

Pushing a shitcoin onto a largely tech user base may do the trick eh?

Or maybe I just put on my tinfoil hat this morning..