That's what I thought as a european in the beginning of this year. But in a matter of weeks, all of my closest friends and family members downloaded Signal. I

That's what I thought as a european in the beginning of this year. But in a matter of weeks, all of my closest friends and family members downloaded Signal. I was able to convert some people by myself by just deleting my WhatsApp account. Last year I had a phase where I wanted to ungoogle/uncloud my life. I never thought that I would be able to delete WhatsApp for the same reasons you mentioned. Turns out, most people don't really care about installing another messenger, if they do, I just write them via SMS. I now chat 90% on Signal, the other 10% are split between Threema, Telegram, SMS and Discord.