My take on it at the time was that while technically more knowledgable people were all happily having video calls in-browser for free, less tech savvy people we

My take on it at the time was that while technically more knowledgable people were all happily having video calls in-browser for free, less tech savvy people were, by the millions, excitedly installing a pretty ropey app with root privileges and a whole bunch of vulnerabilities. It felt like a very necessary step when the normies thought they were entering the matrix.