If you intentionally obscure a feature, people won't use it.
If you make it the default, they will.

Next, WhatsApp loses this "rarely used" feature also

Since when did Instagram support E2E? I didn’t even know, lol.

Whereas I got rid of my instagram that I barely used.

You had to manually turn it on. It was buried in settings, and it created 2 separate chats. Of course nobody used it. I only found out about it a month ago

I‘m surprised they even had that. The average Instagram user probably doesn‘t even know what that means.

It's really interesting that even with occasional usage of the app not once has this setting been mentioned or brought up for me. Why remove it?

Sorry guys, my fault. Zuck just thought my beautiful dick pics shouldn't be hidden from the world any longer

Yeah, I'm sure that's the real reason. And all the convenience for spying on users to collect data for targeted advertising is just a side effect.

1. it was encrypted?

2. it had to be activated?!?

Everyone would use it if that's just the only way it worked. I don't need to turn e2ee in Signal on. It's always on. There's no way to turn it off. So, everyone uses it. The only reason to make people jump through hoops to turn it on is if you don't actually want people using it.

blocked so many bot accounts, think i broke something. permaban without usual 'community standards' excuse. fuc zuc