@f4grx @Shatur @dansup

Installation hardship does not inheritly mean control over thing in question. You are never tied to the flagship instance, nor to Element as a client; if you have hard time selfhosting it, you can alway choose a provider who went through weeds and enabled signups. Admin of my homeinstance hosts a Matrix instance, so I stuck with it, and I use Fractal to access it. I don't feel inferior to users of flagship instance either.