Do you mean that as a positive or a negative thing? Also, apart from what I mentioned above, I've also found out that with Signal it's very hard to transfer yo

Do you mean that as a positive or a negative thing? Also, apart from what I mentioned above, I've also found out that with Signal it's very hard to transfer your chat history to another phone. (involves manually copying over a backup, entering 30 char key). I can't in good conscience recommend an app like that as a replacement to anyone, so I guess my Signal experiment will be short-lived.