So not really worse than any other Android phones

Definitely not as good as signal but at least Whatsapp is e2e encrypted unlike Instagram

Is it kind of like calling someone “it” as an insult in English?

On simplelogin premium you can get your own subdomain from them. For example, you can have the subdomain @computer.simplelogin.com. In my experience these might work even when the domain is blocked for sign up

IIRC it breaks end to end encryption so not interested

Snapchat has the snap map feature where you can see the location of others who share it and I have seen so many people who have it enabled for ALL their Snapchat friends, while also accepting pretty much anyone as a friend. Scary shit