@rugk The internet has a history of enshittification. This is going to be another example of in the future the requirement for a phone number to be removed, and now you have a dumpster fire of spam messages ricocheting across the service.
When that requirement is removed, I am out.
Draw a line from the other previous services such as WhatsApp. "WhatsApp for business" is cryptoscamming and now WhatsApp has become unusable.
This is the wrong path for @signalapp
@trbarrettjr @signalapp this is your personal opinion that a phone number is positive for messengers, others may disagree. So that "history" take is very subjective.
But from what I heard Signal is on the same side as you, they seem to really want to keep phone number verification, for better or for worse.