What a weird hill to die on.
How can someone else's experience and enjoyment of something differ from my own criteria?!
Not least because switch was old hardware when it launched, it's aged hardware at this point, and equivalent games on other platforms have far better performance.
It's certainly different, but for signal users who want to maintain that level of privacy, it's probably something they want, right? From their perspective this is probably a good decision.
I'm indifferent because I'd personally rather have interoperability and Beeper gets the job done.
I'm indifferent, since I've got both installed, there's no escaping having to use WhatsApp in many countries around the globe. If I want to keep in touch with family/friends then only one or two contacts use signal, for everyone else it's WhatsApp or the alternative is SMS.
I'm also indifferent though because of I want the interoperability, Beeper is doing fine.
There are people who are knowledgeable and good at their job. Knowledgeable enough to be experts. Those are usually subject matter experts, including developers.
The issue is that no one can guarantee an outcome or that they've picked the right approach.
I prefer manuals, they're more fun to drive, but the future is inevitably automatic with EVs.
I've made the switch over and Lemmy feels perfectly viable and improving very quickly especially with the third party app devs working on supporting Lemmy. Reddit won't die but it looks like it'll stagnate, whereas Lemmy has got a brighter future.
That's the joke
I have one person I know on Signal, and zero people I know who use stories outside of Instagram.
Saying "I don't need privacy because I've got nothing to hide" is like saying "I don't need free speech because I've got nothing to say".
Nothing wrong with a utilitarian boring UI/UX. It's not going to be a determining factor but a nicer looking and feeling experience is...nicer.
Forgive me if I say that might sound like a biased take.
Personally, leaving aside the legal argument of piracy, I would be fine with paying Nintendo the money but playing on my steam deck and having stuff like steam input and having my save games for future PCs. I haven't played TotK yet but the 90+ hours I put in BotW is locked to the switch which I sold after getting a steam deck. I don't care for high end PC performance.