I've used element every day for a while now, it's fantastic software...
The trouble is that I want to believe you, but I'm(and I imagine certain others) having a hard time doing so.
Element has been giving us open source code under the most liberal license for something like 10 years. I think he’s earned a little benefit of the doubt.
Well, sure, but so did Hashicorp with terraform for 9 years. Rather successfully mind you. Things and circumstances change.