If you think WhatsApp is encrypted, I have a handful of magic beans to sell you.

Care to back that up? We know they don't encrypt metadata - that's not a secret. Message content however is E2EE - thankfully these things get audited: https://blog.cloudflare.com/key-transparency/

	▲	varispeed an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This doesn't prove WhatsApp is encrypted at all. It proves that a directory of public keys is being logged and audited. That's it. The protocol existing or being referenced doesn't prove it's what the production client is doing. That requires verifying the client code and behaviour end-to-end, not just the key directory.