Honestly, it is insanely exciting to see Matrix having evolved from the “good enough for enthusiastic geeks” to the “wow, this feels better than Signal” phase that we’re entering now.

Anecdotally, I now wince whenever I have to use another messaging system – not because of loyalty to Matrix, but because the experience is going to be worse: WhatsApp has more "Waiting for message, this may take a while" errors (aka Unable To Decrypts or UTDs) than Matrix does,