Nothing new here. E2E is only available in one on one chats and is disabled by default.

At least Telegram has an open-source client. Very few messaging platforms can say that, and fewer have a decent UX.

It’s not perfect, but it’s got the best combination of features and multi-platform availability by quite a bit. None of the other messaging apps support all of my devices except Matrix, and Matrix doesn’t have stickers

Signal

After Signal’s lie about dropping SMS support because of “engineering costs”, I really can’t believe anything else they say.

Plus the app experience sucks, it’s no better than SMS.