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>>pera+(OP)
What really hurts Signal are two things:

* sub-par user experience: WhatsApp is just nicer and smoother, and people tend to like that

* very few people understand that Signal DOES NOT get your full contact list, while Facebook (through WhatsApp) does

Especially the second point is very relevant with the current situation — you do not necessarily want to expose your entire social graph to Facebook. But so few people understand this, and even fewer grasp that Signal can still work without doing the same thing.

>>jwr+ty
Honestly even if the UX is still behind WhatsApp, I have seen it improve continuously since I've started using it. Images (with annotations), videos (with some controls like trimming), gifs, sound recordings, stickers, emojis... it's great and honestly good enough for most imo. Especially compared to WhatsApp which isn't really on the bleeding edge of social features either.