Much depends on your threat model. Telegram is plenty good for keeping your conversations out of the hands of Facebook and Google, and the user experience with

Much depends on your threat model. Telegram is plenty good for keeping your conversations out of the hands of Facebook and Google, and the user experience with synching messages/drafts between devices and editing/deleting of messages blows the doors off Signal, iMessage, and the like. And for all the whinging about Telegram's security model, there's yet to be a documented hack of the server.