To add to this point, the goal for end-to-end encryption by default was January (said in December):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21765008

But there have been other times where "soon!" have been given over the past three years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I like Matrix and think Signal makes some serious mistakes for no apparent reason, but yeah, the repeated "Matrix is just as good and more free we swear!" is...maybe not the right thing to say, yet.