You're just saying that Signal's priorities don't align with those of some people, but the point of the article is that, given certain priorities, they'll be mo

You're just saying that Signal's priorities don't align with those of some people, but the point of the article is that, given certain priorities, they'll be more easily fulfilled if your system is centralized, nothing else. Whether these priorities are the "right" ones is orthogonal to the debate about decentralized vs federated architures.