Or why the hell can't all the "omg the sky is falling and Facebook is so horrible" people on this thread just understand any of the numerous places this has bee

Or why the hell can't all the "omg the sky is falling and Facebook is so horrible" people on this thread just understand any of the numerous places this has been explained and not make out like something of actual interest about the protocol or even the client has changed? The shear amount of misinformation being spread about this topic on Hacker News is ridiculously disappointing and entirely unbefitting of its supposedly enlightened audience, and the number of people I--as an actual privacy and security researcher--have had to talk out of switching from WhatsApp to something actually bad for their use cases due to all of this anti-WhatsApp FUD is insane.