Switch over to Signal, the bloat velocity is much much lower :)
Not to mention the app is a buggy mess. At least on iphone.
If you think it's buggy on iPhone you have no idea what's going on on Android. The iOS venison is actaully the "polished " one as Signal devs daily drive iPhones.
The only people I know that have this kind of issue with Signal are all on Huawei phones, we've configured them and it's worked for a while but Huawei only seem to care about letting Facebook/Whatsapp/Teitter/etc.. run properly.
and assume you mean you've tried other somewhat-niche messengers, not just the major ones that get special treatment.
I do not like Meta, but I never experienced with whatsapp, that someone send a message and this message just vanishes, so the sender thinks he is getting ignored. But exactly this happened way too often with signal.
Whatsapp, being so popular, gets whitelisted. It has to work or people would be telling each other "don't buy Samsung!" (not unlike the situation with Huawai since the Play store got removed from their phones).
Messages getting lost entirely is a whole separate matter - so you got the two ticks telling you it'd been delivered, but nothing at the recipient's end? Was this a long time ago? I would stop using it too if I had that problem, I agree.
This is the matter I am mostly talking about. Everything else is annyance.
As far as I remember, it was mostly only 1 tick, but likely also an instance with 2 ticks (grey) - but no trace ever on the recipent.
It happened often during the peak of new users coming to signal, with the latest whatsapp drama ( I use signal since the beginning), but since then not that I am aware off. But it did erode trust for me and others, so I cannot safely recommend it anymore.
Like the other poster mentionied, you might have missed, that you missed things. It is sadly unreliable for me, too, which is just unacceptable with a messenger.