Sounds logical to be honest.

The E2E encryption is not protecting you, it's protecting the company providing the software.

The only thing that is legit is the local use of PGP. But it's a shame we don't really progress much.

Gajim recently got a modern PGP implementation: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-06-18-gajim-2.4.7-released/