Ok, fair enough, WhatsApp is trash. But you didn't convince me on the matter of chat history and e2e. First off, as long as I have any device with chat history

Ok, fair enough, WhatsApp is trash. But you didn't convince me on the matter of chat history and e2e. First off, as long as I have any device with chat history online — it is possible for my new device to inherit it as well. It's fine even if I have to confirm manually that session keys are equal or whatever. Second, note that history can be stored on Telegram servers in encrypted form, I only need to have some secret key that is never sent to Telegram. This way "backing up the history" wouldn't be any different from "sending a message". And being responsible for taking care of my security keys is entirely reasonable. Third, remember that primary Telegram credential is your phone number — something I abhor, but as long as this is true, I do need to have my phone to log-in on a new device anyway. By the way, I never tried to see if it actually works, but I would rather not being able to access my history after losing my device at all, rather than accepting that anyone who will get in possession of my phone number will be able to read all my chats. "My phone number" is not "me", for fuck's sake. (Yes, I know about 2-step auth, but we are talking about defaults here.) And, honestly, I guess I would be fine with anything more or less usable, all I really have to know is that "normal people" do use WhatsApp and do find its usability ok. This means they would accept secure chats by default in Telegram as well. How long is it since you lost all your devices that can host Telegram at the same time, anyway? It is rarely the case that anyone's I know devices are all off at the same time, let alone lost.