I agree with all of this except that his standard seems to be perfection, when a lot of us are not looking for a Signal alternative, but a Discord alternative, which it is. It's still better than Discord.

The Matrix Foundation and everything under it has systemic problems that they haven't even acknowledged in the 5+ years I've been eyeing Matrix, and I will not fucking defend them, but Matrix is the best Discord alternative we have unless you're willing to hitch your bet on a single sysadmin hosting Stoat or whatever else.

I've been in enough communities that implode because one critical person got his finger stuck in his ass that I refuse to migrate to a service that isn't federated, and XMPP kinda sucks, so Matrix it is.